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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. -- Peter Morgan
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. -- Daniel Handler
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else. -- Billy Collins
I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl. -- Nnedi Okorafor
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. -- James Rollins
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. -- Peter Morgan
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. -- Irvine Welsh
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s. -- Fred Savage
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke. -- Ira Glass
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. -- Joan D. Vinge
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books. -- Jon Scieszka
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head. -- James Rollins
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created. -- Amy Tan
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels... -- Dav Pilkey
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading. -- Frederick Busch
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. -- Peter Morgan

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