Able Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

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

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

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 connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life…

— Varley O'Connor

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach…

— Alex Berenson

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

— Richard Harris

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the…

— Isabel Allende

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read…

— Cheryl Strayed

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

— Mukul Dev

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

— Andy Richter