Richard Dawkins Quotes

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

I like to read fiction.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

I never even had the time to read novels.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

I read a lot of fiction.

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.

I don't like anything too heavy. Something I can read, you know, lying in bed that takes me to different world.