Am Quote by Jane Gardam

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

— Simon Mawer

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

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Tom Sizemore

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

— Irvine Welsh

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

— David Quammen

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes…

— Neil Gaiman

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

— Michael Imperioli

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

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 don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

— Sara Shepard