“We put our flags in soil when we arrive, as if it now belongs to us and we know where we are.” — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“9 November 1989. A day nobody would forget. She had heard rumours about the wall.” — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“The bravest stories are the ones we live quietly, without applause.” — Mary Catherine Belle Copy Share Image
“War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To be free means always leaving...or returning to a place where leaves never fall.” — Rich Shapero Copy Share Image
“All human loneliness can be filtered down in one way or another to the singular, tragic element of silence...” — Nettie Magnan Copy Share Image
“Does Ebui dream of a private grave? People in fancy dress eulogizing, laying down their offerings. Or does she dream past the… — Johnny Firic Copy Share Image
“And Tarquin,’ Semilla said quietly. ‘He has been in league with them all along?’ ‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed.” — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
“As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity. The human spirit then dies… — Earl Warhus Copy Share Image
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“The morgue was the name the human workers gave to this room in the facility. They were careful not to utter it… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
“One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out… — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your… — Jessica Bell Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s why I was so afraid of Sasha’s love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at… — Alexia Purdy Copy Share Image
“After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Her entire life, she’d been told sin was wrong, a black and white interpretation of what is evil and what is holy… — Madi Merek Copy Share Image
“What do you read?” Ismay asks. “Little bit of everything. I started with crime novels. Pretty predictable that, I guess. But then… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and… — Nathan Bransford literary agent Copy Share Image
“Gracie leaned out the back, craning her neck as far as she could around the side, trying to catch the wind in… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“I couldn't bring myself to ask Matka why they had taken him. She pretended that he'd gone away on business. I pretended… — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“I left Hairball to his manic mantric singing. I walked toward the house and stopped to rub some white pine needles on… — Scott Lax Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Beautiful day out there,” I said, perching on the stool and crossing my legs. “It’s autumn, Sunday, great weather, and crowded everywhere… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“After a long while, the giant forest turned into a clearing. Up ahead, a large waterfall rushed into a giant pool. Rippling… — Valerie Dunsmore Copy Share Image
“One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“There could be no better time to read THE END OF BLISS, Rhonda Cutler's beautifully researched and heartfelt novel about another of… — Rhonda Ringler Cutler Copy Share Image
“For instance, the headmistress, Miss Moore. I knew right away that she had come to Antigua from England, for she looked like… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“I came to the party with the sole purpose of getting completely shit-faced, to be perfectly honest. That was it, that was… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
“Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“I don't need a crystal ball to see into the future, although they are quite beautiful.” — Rick Pryll Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us. -MUKTA” — Amita Trasi Copy Share Image
“A nose is ordinarily naked. A nose isn’t nipple, although there are similarities.” — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“That's the trouble with innocents. They aren't innocent of doing, just of knowing what they're doing.” — Jack Butler Copy Share Image
“This job is so...so...I can't even begin to describe it. "Try living it on a daily basis.” — Virginia Aird Copy Share Image
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