“He is half vampire. He would eat you.” Gatuika splashes her sister.” — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
“Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere.” — Tommy Orange Copy Share Image
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
“The bravest stories are the ones we live quietly, without applause.” — Mary Catherine Belle 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
For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not a popular subject in literary fiction. We struggle, as writers, to make happiness, contentment, and satisfaction interesting. Perfection often… — Roxanne Gay Copy Share Image
“I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things… — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can't wait for the rest of your life to come to you. You have to go to it. Or at… — Gerry Pirani Copy Share Image
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.” — Michael Wyndham Thomas 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
“In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
“Once, I’d been so afraid you would forget me. Now I knew you wouldn’t, but it didn’t make me feel any better.… — Nicola Maye Goldberg Copy Share Image
“She remembers this phrase from his final months of law school, when he brought home the books on starting up a business.… — Jacob Appel Copy Share Image
“I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
“After everything is said and done, a memory remains a treacherous thing…How long does one cling on to the people they’ve lost?… — Kanza Javed 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 have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I… — Brian K. Friesen 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“A nose is ordinarily naked. A nose isn’t nipple, although there are similarities.” — Graham Spaid 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
“That's the trouble with innocents. They aren't innocent of doing, just of knowing what they're doing.” — Jack Butler 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
“It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us. -MUKTA” — Amita Trasi 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
![“…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight at you; you have no conversation with a popular novel. Whereas you do have a conversation (you have an intense argument) with [literary fiction].” quote by Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/976/martin-amis-704_books_here-we-come-close-to-one-of-the-definit_2294595.jpg)
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