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“No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.”

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Author:Cynthia Ozick

“Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.”

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Author:Peter Morgan

“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”

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Author:George R. R. Martin

“Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.”

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Book:Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

“What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.”

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Author:Charles Stross

“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.”

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Author:Ann Patchett

“...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.”

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Author:John Waters

“I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.”

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Author:Lily King

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

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Author:Charlie Brooker