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


Sara Shepard
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I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.
Lois Lowry
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Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.


Tom DeLonge
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Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
Allan Guthrie
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When I was first told about 'Game of Thrones,' I didn't know the books, anything. So I read the pilot, and when I got the first script, it was clear the story was about these people and families and a constant battle for power.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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I read everything and anything. I love books.


Gail Porter
My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
Gayle Forman
I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I haven't read the books.
Jake Abel
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Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
China Mieville
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
Daniel Alarcon
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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.
James D. Watson
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.


Harvey Pekar
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Read books. They are good for us.


Natalie Goldberg
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People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.
Sarah Waters
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.


Walter Bagehot
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If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
Shelby Foote
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I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.
Jean M. Auel
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I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.


Roddy Doyle
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My books are written from the heart, to entertain: they're books I would like to read. Because of that, when I meet people who like them, we have so much to talk about!
Nick Harkaway
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I read fantasy books like the Harry Potter books, 'Twilight,' also biographies, and I like to read about people who have been through stuff like wars or lost their families - real life stuff, you know? I like to read about their experiences and how they coped with that.
Wynter Gordon
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