Adore Quote by Heidi Julavits

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

— Heidi Julavits

If having a story that's compelling - you want to know what will happen - is traditional, then ultimately I am a traditionalist. That…

— Jennifer Egan

Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can…

— Irvine Welsh

I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of…

— Adam Ross

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about…

— Kevin Wilson

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 lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

— Amy Landecker

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction…

— Irvine Welsh

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

— Bill Gates