About Quote by Tom Rachman

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating…

— Jeanette Winterson

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

— Orson Scott Card

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself…

— David Foster Wallace

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

— Adam Ross

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

— Kwame Dawes

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

I don't read fiction at all.

— Brent Spiner

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

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

— Bill Gates

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

— Philip Roth

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell