In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn't thicker than water.” — Constantina Maud Copy Share Image
“In quantum physics, particles change when they’re observed. But this isn’t quantum: my book doesn’t alter by being seen or unseen. It… — S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour Copy Share Image
Why is it okay to write a work of literary fiction where horrible, explicit things happen, where you can't write a book… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
“Holding the bread to her chest, she made her way home, thinking of those dreamy winter afternoons, when the light looked as… — Alexis Landau Copy Share Image
“Yes, Remy, I think I do mind,” Daniel hissed. He didn’t sound like himself. He sounded evil, feral-like. An instant chill fell… — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But this bus was a bit too full. The driver only appeared to control the glass and metal around him. In reality,… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“Thomas tilted his head towards me. "Don't mind him, he's drunk." "Does he work for you?" I asked him. "Who, Rick? No… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“You already know what the machine will write on your arm. That lie you’ve been telling yourself—you know what it is. That… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“I'm saying that figuring out what's important in life and how to go about getting it is very difficult. Sometimes you get… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“One by one, slow, quiet, with little more than a whispered end, Sofia snuffed the remaining candles. For every prayer she had… — Douglas Weissman Copy Share Image
“There exists an oasis where inspiration bursts forth like black gold from the fertile loam and every odd bellbird chirps a melody… — Adam G. Tarsitano Copy Share Image
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“She opened her eyes and looked into his rather intensely. "What?" Alex asked. "This cannot be." "What can't be?" Alex asked her,… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
“I walked past Malison, up Lower Main to Main and across the road. I didn’t need to look to know he was… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“For two young women, bound together by blood and circumstance, but divided by religion, politics, and social class, the consequences were much… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
“Mr Martinek turned back to Jana. 'Thirty-eight per cent alcohol, sixty-two per cent fire - all the way from Karlovy Vary.” — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with me, Dan. Whats wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
“He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to… — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“Despite the countless acts of violence that the two had witnessed, and even participated in, over the years, they were still shocked… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
“Ava glanced over at Napoleon, who was walking back toward them. She smirked at Juliet and said, "Sweetie, you are *not* the… — Jay Fingers Copy Share Image
“…he’d assumed their relationship would go on forever. It was going on now, but in another way, like the rearrangement of the… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“I don't know, Benes. I'm not sure I've ever really understood women for that kind of commitment.' He flipped his beer mat… — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“What were you doing all those years, after you disappeared?' Doug paused, unsure of his words. 'After she died.' Grace looked at… — Abigail Easton Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry to tell you that another Dani was found wandering around the time station in our building, confused and disoriented.” — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“I can’t do more than this. Don’t ask me. If you ask, I’ll try and I’ll fail. You’ll end up hating me.… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
“Don't get me started on the term literary fiction. I think the idea is that there are some books who know how… — Keir Graff Copy Share Image
“He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a… — David Louden Copy Share Image
“She thought of his boat silhouetted against the horizon and the image of him hurrying toward her through the fog.” — Abigail Easton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when we cannot attain the freedom we are fighting for, we free ourselves b carving a new path to freedom.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
