Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

- Arthur C. Clarke

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

- Anthony Horowitz

The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

- Ann Leckie

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

- Ann Leckie

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

- Ann Leckie

I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'

- Andrew Luck

I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.

- Alice McDermott

'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.

- Alan Furst

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

- Arundhati Roy

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

- Arundhati Roy

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

- A. C. Benson

I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.

- Anne Wojcicki

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

- Anne Lamott

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

- Aneurin Bevan

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

- Andie MacDowell

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

- Amy Tan

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

- Amy Tan

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

- Alfred Adler

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

- Alan Alda

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

- Al Sharpton