Fiction Consumption Quotes

I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'

I think printed fiction is what women read.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.