Fiction Readers Quotes

Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does. Would you sign the book to her?" What are those men doing there? And where are their wives?

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

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.

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.

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

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.