Books Quote by Jonathan Lethem

I don't like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I'm reading.

— Lewis Hamilton

Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write. I just…

— Stephenie Meyer

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

— Judy Blume

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

— Penelope Lively

I find now I'm reading a lot more nonfiction, simply because every time I read fiction, I think I can write it better. But…

— Chris Claremont

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

— Anonymous

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

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

— Irvine Welsh

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

— Francine du Plessix Gray