Books Quote by Sara Shepard

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read…

— Isabel Allende

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 don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

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

— Bennett Miller

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

— Walter Jon Williams

“To live, fiction must be read, and to be read it must be enjoyed. Why do so many people talk about the number of…

— Trevor Cole

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

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

— Olga Tokarczuk

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