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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

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth. — S.A. Tawks

Nick sat alone reading a copy of The Independent . Cocaine socialists were trying their hardest to juice up Britain's economy with super casinos — Saira Viola

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

Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981. — Robert Rankin

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

Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels. — Kellyn Roth

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' — Ray Bradbury

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough
I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too. — Nicole Christie

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. — A.S. Byatt

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

Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. — Peter Morgan

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves. — Sarah Van Arsdale

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader. — W.J. Raymond

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

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film. — Kevin Wilson

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction. — Raymond A. Mar

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people. — Paul Park

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

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

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

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction. — Steve Almond

When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose. — Ann Radcliffe

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

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book. — Matt Haig

I stoped reading science fiction once I saw that the UFO was real. It became science fact that just hasn't been proven yet. — Mike Bird

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

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world. — Robin Hobb

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we 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

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. — Denise Mina

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story. — Amy Engel

No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD. — John Raptor

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. — Lynn Coady

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history — Iain Banks

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

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read. — Jim Shepard