Books Quote by David Quammen

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

— Simon Mawer

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

— Richard Attenborough

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

— Tom Sizemore

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of…

— David Lammy

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

— Bill Gates

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

— Peter Morgan

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

— Ken Follett

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

— Henry Rollins

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

— Bennett Miller

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

— Jim Shepard

I tend to read non-fiction.

— Gary Oldman