Fiction Reading Quotes

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

I'm very picky with what I read. It's a specific genre of science fiction.

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.

When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

I always take a fiction break in between business books to keep the content from bleeding together.

I don't very often read novels.

I don't read a lot of fiction, but one of my favorite authors is William Kennedy; his books, to me, almost read like historical dramas because the mythologies are so detailed as he wove fiction with the factual history of Albany.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

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

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.

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

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.