Access Quote by John Hodgman

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

— Albert Camus

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the…

— Paul Theroux

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world -…

— Sara Sheridan

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of…

— John Dos Passos

Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from…

— Thomas Mallon

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much…

— Zia Haider Rahman

A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.

— Erik Larson

“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow…

— Anonymous