Brent Spiner Quotes

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

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

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

I tend to read non-fiction.

I am not that big of a fantasy person. I prefer myself to think of living in the real world.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.

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

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

I rather like getting away from fiction.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.