Books Quote by Chris Pavone

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

— Richard Attenborough

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff,…

— John Krasinski

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

“I read all kinds of novels, as long as they’re good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don’t really like that…

— Gillian Flynn

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

— Irwin Shaw

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

— Frank Peretti

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

“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an…

— The Economist

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

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest…

— Dree Hemingway