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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.


Barry Eisler

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STEVEN WRIGHT I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal...
WALTER MOSLEY I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
GALE ANNE HURD I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The L...
LAUREN WEISBERGER I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I&#...
O. R. MELLING I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can al...
TRACY KIDDER I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ...
GARDNER DOZOIS I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says th...
MICHAEL KORYTA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influen...
DUSTIN YELLIN I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr...
JAMES HOWE A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about r...
CHAIM POTOK When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to...
EDWARD HIRSCH The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fictio...
REYNOLDS PRICE I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite scienc...
BRAD FELD Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he...
LEE GUTKIND I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
KARIN SLAUGHTER I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired,...
ANITA BROOKNER I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen...
EMILY PERKINS I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it...
W. P. KINSELLA I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud ...
TAWNI O'DELL I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
ELEANOR CATTON Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a livi...
JANETTE RALLISON I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
DAN AYKROYD I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my fir...
IRVIN D. YALOM I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, n...
SANDRA CISNEROS Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, a...
SAUL DAVID I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems da...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir...
DEBORAH HARKNESS I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making reali...
MADHUR BHANDARKAR There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an...
JOHN SCALZI The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doi...
LISA TUTTLE I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of co...
NNEDI OKORAFOR By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
JANETTE RALLISON I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
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JAMES ROLLINS I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b...
TED CHIANG I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ...
JAY PARINI I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also ...
TRACY KIDDER It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'...
TERRY PRATCHETT I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the libra...
MOLLY HARPER I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and wo...
NEIL CROSS I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science ...
JOHN UPDIKE Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
KHALED HOSSEINI I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
TERRY PRATCHETT I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and R...
REBECCA STEAD I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain o...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don...
JONATHAN LETHEM Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci...
PHILIP K. DICK I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ...
WALTER MOSLEY I don't read Science Fiction.
BRENT SPINER I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ...
LOIS LOWRY I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
LORDE Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more t...
CLARK ZLOTCHEW I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Aust...
AMY BLOOM People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ...
RUTH OZEKI Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
GERALD CLARKE For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's...
IRIS CHANG I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd li...
JANIS IAN Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I ...
ANDREW CLEMENTS Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.
JOYCE RACHELLE I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of pl...
TAIYE SELASI Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people'...
JOEL C. ROSENBERG I've been really inspired by Paris Hilton, small dogs, and a glitter, luxe lifestyle.
CHARLI XCX Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.
TOM DELONGE I don't read fiction at all.
BRENT SPINER I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually...
MARGUERITE YOUNG I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that ...
STIEG LARSSON I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies...
RICHARD BRANSON Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish.
TEMPLE EMMET WILLIAMS I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by th...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I've always been inspired by beautiful interiors.
AERIN LAUDER Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream l...
WALTER JON WILLIAMS Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.
TAPAN GHOSH Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.
JUSTIN ALCALA Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the ...
KIRBY BLISS BLANTON Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science...
PHILIP K. DICK The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working c...
MARTIN AMIS Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fic...
RIDLEY SCOTT I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
MALORIE BLACKMAN There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tel...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
DAMON GALGUT His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
GERALD CLARKE I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
ALEX FLINN I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right a...
JAMES PATTERSON Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
GERALD CLARKE Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
VERONICA ROTH I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re...
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BARRY SILBERT Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful ...
BARRY SILBERT Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropaymen...
BARRY SILBERT The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It...
BARRY SILBERT Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, b...
BARRY SILBERT While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day ma...
BARRY SILBERT I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championshi...
BARRY SHEENE Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
BARRY SHEENE It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
BARRY SHEENE I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomor...
BARRY SHEENE They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
BARRY SHEENE It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
BARRY SHEENE I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
BARRY SHEENE Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
BARRY SHEENE I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to car...
BARRY SHEENE I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. Bu...
BARRY SCHWARTZ How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Y...
BARRY SCHWARTZ Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
BARRY SCHWARTZ What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about so...
BARRY SCHWARTZ