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“I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.”

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Author:Kathy Reichs

“I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own? Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb, Appal the surest hour that life bestows. Serence, and master of yourself, prepare For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.”

Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

“Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.”

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Author:Peter Morgan

“I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.”

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Author:Randy Alcorn

“Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.”

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Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.”

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Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.”

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Author:Jeff Smith

“I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.”

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Author:Diane Ackerman

“I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.”

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Author:Celina Jade

“All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore.”

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Author:Naomi Novik

“Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to me, "Shut up and enjoy your money," and I think, OK, I'll shut up and enjoy my money, but why does Stephen King get to enjoy his money and get reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review?”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.”

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Author:Roxane Gay