Audience Quote by Alex Berenson

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my…

— Colson Whitehead

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

— Celeste Ng

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

— Adam Ross

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

— Bill Gates

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett