Appeals Quote by Yann Martel

People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be,…

— Anne Enright

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

— Mukul Dev

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

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

— Ben Marcus

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and where our…

— Meg Wolitzer

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

— Rob Van Dam

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach…

— Alex Berenson

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

— Richard Harris

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

— Edgar Allan Poe

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

— Sara Sheridan