Commonplace Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very…

— David McCullough

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and…

— John Updike

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…

— Jim Woodring

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have…

— Celeste Ng

I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends.…

— Steven Pressfield

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true…

— Errol Morris