Crime Quote by Olga Tokarczuk

I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by…

— A. S. Byatt

“You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?”

— Joe R. Lansdale

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything…

— Emilia Fox

I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading... I wasn't reading anything great…

— Michael Riedel

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am…

— Sophie Hannah

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn…

— Cynthia Ozick

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of…

— Dylan Moran

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

— Romola Garai

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

— Bennett Miller

A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

— Diana Gabaldon

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

— Diana Penty

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.

— Prodigy