Reading Fiction Quotes
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Reading Fiction Quotes & Sayings
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When reading dies, the imagination soon follows.
— Ronnie Ray Jenkins
I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.
— Michael M. Thomas
His chief interest was in reading fiction, then trying to analyze what he had read, fitting it into a larger pattern.
— Stephen King
Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.
— Steven Rigolosi
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
— Orson Scott Card
When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
— Sandra Cisneros
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
— Anthony Doerr
As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.
— Michael Dirda
Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!
— Livia Bitton-Jackson
I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
I read nonfiction.She reared back as if offended. — Anne Osterlund
The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.
— S.A. Tawks
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
— William James
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 fond of mysteries.
— David McCullough
I think any reading is good reading, even if it's commercial fiction. A good story well told is worth the time
— Lynn Cahoon
Reading non-fiction without writing notes is like chewing without swallowing. You will get the taste of it but digest nothing
— Ray Hartley
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
— Madhur Bhandarkar
The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.
— Kevin Focke
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
— William L.K.
I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.
— Jean Giono
What you do today is important . We can never get today back.
— Christine Handy
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
— Octavia Butler
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy - the insertion of oneself into the life of another.
— Julie Schumacher
I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
— Bill Willingham
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.
— Simon Mawer
Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who "identified" with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.
— Joseph Epstein
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I've always felt sad for people who don't read fiction; they only get to live one life.
— Jack Tyler
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello! magazine.
— Edward St. Aubyn
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
— Bonnie Friedman
Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enoughI, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too. — Nicole Christie
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
— Michael Dirda
Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.
— Sarah Van Arsdale
As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.
— Gregory Benford
Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.
— Raymond A. Mar
Reading a non-fiction book is like a religious experience.
— Rachel Perry
In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.
— Alice McDermott
If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Two excellent crime fiction writers I'm currently reading...Laura Wilson and Andrew Taylor — Roger Boutwell
Ugh! She cursed her lack of attention to the [mythology] reading. Who could have known that would be the important class?
— Joannah Miley
Fiction works because a part of the mind forgets that it's fiction while we're reading it.
— Lawrence Block
The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.
— S.A. Tawks
The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.
— P.A. Wunderlich
But talking to a ghost about a demon when you're in a room full of people who can't see either of them is not to be recommended.
— Kerstin Gier
Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.
— Jennifer Haigh
Time flows like memories on the shores of the past.
— Michael Joseph Murano
I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
— M. J. Hyland
As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
— Alison Croggon
I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.
— Jane Lindskold
Only through fiction can we think about the unthinkable...
— Stephen King
Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.
— Brandi L. Bates
I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.
— Andie MacDowell
I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then.
— Robert Stephen Parry
Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.
— Marianne Williamson
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
— Vladimir Nabokov
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
— Frederik Pohl
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
— Susan Sontag
When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.
— S.A. Tawks
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.
— Lily King
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.
— Vonda N. McIntyre
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
— Alice Hoffman
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrorswe hope
of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card
Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.
— Elin Hilderbrand
The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.
— Mary Papas
People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.
— Carla H. Krueger
She must have been very anxious about a first boy friend to fall in love with a Colgate boy
— Haidji
Writing to her from America, her best friend remarked, 'I've stopped reading fiction, I just read about you.
— Catherine Bailey
Nice passion is reading
— Leo Tolstoy
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds"~Vianka Van Bokkem — Vianka Van Bokkem
So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it.
— Carla H. Krueger
The lady in the liquor store sold me a fifth of whiskey and the landlord's name without taking her eyes off the book she was reading.
— Andrew Cotto
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
— Iain Banks
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.
— Lynn Coady
Wishing you the best adventures in reading and in life!
— Sass Cadeaux
The constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
