Sentence examples for readers fiction from inspiring English sources

I knew that their appearance might perplex readers (fiction in The New York Times?), so my editor and I agreed that each one would run with the label "Summer Fiction Series".

But pretty soon his hobbyhorse outrides his interest in storytelling, and the narrative becomes cluttered with explicit statements on the plight of serious writers in the marketplace: "Novels are history"; "No one had readers"; "Fiction was fucked".

Bozic never graduated from high school, but in his teens he became an avid reader — fiction, poetry, history, foreign policy.

A 2006 University of Toronto study found that avid readers of fiction were far more socially adept than avid readers of non-fiction: "Comprehending characters in a narrative fiction appears to parallel the comprehension of peers in the actual world, while the comprehension of expository non-fiction shares no such parallels".

And for every generation of critics, and readers, her fiction effortlessly renews itself.

Many readers of fiction, too, found reportage and memoir better equipped to allay their bewilderment and sate their reality hunger.

I notice that dedicated readers of fiction tend towards new books.

Behind Farrell's return to favour lies a hunger, among readers of fiction and certainly among anxious publishers, for the blockbuster with brains.

Theatrical audiences, like readers of fiction, do not merely watch sequences of untrue events from the outside, we knowingly inhabit them, and thereby find greater truths within them.

But, as Philip Roth has lamented, the number of serious readers of fiction in this country has declined from many millions to fewer than several thousand.

Re "True Lies," by Ben Greenman (March 17): I have long been intrigued by how often readers of fiction want to know which parts really happened to the author, whereas readers of nonfiction want to know which parts were made up.