Believe Quote by Sandra Tsing Loh

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

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they…

— Margaret Atwood

I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of…

— Yann Martel

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim…

— Annalee Newitz

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and…

— Annie Dillard

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction…

— Irvine Welsh

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out.…

— William Gibson