John Mica Quotes

I don't read fiction at all.

I don't read fiction.

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 read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

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

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

I'm not a massive reader of traditional books.

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'

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.

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.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.