Non-Fiction Books Quotes

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books.

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

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

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.

Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.

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.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily 'Diplomacy' by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to that book; I have read that book. But not on spring break.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air .

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

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