Books Quote by Edmund White

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

— Richard Harris

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

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

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…

— Jim Woodring

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

— Richard Attenborough

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

— Andy Richter

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

— Michael Imperioli

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

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a…

— David Grann