Books Quote by Sarah Addison Allen

I nearly slept through my entire senior year. I'm fairly convinced they just gave me a diploma just to get me out of school.

— Denny Hamlin

“Homework doesn’t end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning.”

— Susan C. Young

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

— Sabaa Tahir

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.

— Greg Iles

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is…

— Amy Tan

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like…

— Charles Stross

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about…

— Kevin Wilson

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes,…

— George R. R. Martin

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes…

— Neil Gaiman

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going…

— Samuel R. Delany

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was…

— Jim Thompson