Been Quote by Lynn Coady

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have…

— J. G. Ballard

For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed how Microsoft's…

— Paul Virilio

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination

— Anonymous

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

— William T. Vollmann

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

— Kate Morton

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may…

— Ernest Hemingway

As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non…

— Dan Brown

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible.…

— Ray Bradbury

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

— Kenneth Oppel