Michael Ondaatje Quotes

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don't enjoy something, I'll put it down.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

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 very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

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.

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

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

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.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

I tend to read non-fiction.

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

I enjoy reading books.

I like books. I read a lot, to be honest.

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 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.

I like to read. Autobiographies.

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that.

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.