Read Fiction Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

I've only read fiction, so I don't know anything actual — Anna Torv
Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta. For all her… — Jack Handey
People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives. — Ronald Sukenick
On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook,… — Anthony Bourdain
I don't read fiction at all. — Brent Spiner
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me,… — Dorothea Benton Frank
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the… — Alex Berenson
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling… — Tayari Jones
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is… — Karen Thompson Walker
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. — Jonathan Lethem
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I… — Daniel Tammet
I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside… — Diane Setterfield
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner
You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet,… — John Waters
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. — Alfred Hitchcock
Everybody should read fictionâ€¦ I donâ€™t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that wonâ€™t… — Percival Everett
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen… — Umberto Eco
That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones? — Jodi Picoult
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. — Siri Hustvedt

Who Wrote These Read Fiction Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Read Fiction Quotes as follows: