About Quote by Gillian Cross

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

— Richard Harris

I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

— Rumaan Alam

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

“Reading books exposeses you to different lives”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

— David McCullough

Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my…

— Colson Whitehead

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I still care about physical books, gravitate to handsome editions and pretty dust jackets, and enjoy seeing rows of hardcovers on my shelves. Many…

— Michael Dirda

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn…

— Katherine Paterson