Quotes About Literature

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person. I actually believe there's one way of writing.

I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.

Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar.

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

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 think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s.

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.