Ronald Frame Quotes

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

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

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 am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

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.

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.

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 enjoy reading books.

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

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 like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

I read everything and anything. I love books.

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

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

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

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

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

I'm a writer, not a genre.

I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.