As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.” — Justin Bog Copy Share Image
“The sexual contact before this? “It was the first time.” The woman looked at Rat again, harder. The silence was more painful… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“Despite their macabre imaginations, they don't believe the things they say, all those things about magic and fantômes. But I do. I… — Sara Stark 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
“…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
“Very soon you will find yourself at the end of a dirt road, only inches from a threshold . . . a… — Mark Ristau Copy Share Image
“She let her mind drift, thinking about new lingerie designs, wishing she'd brought along her sketchpad. Inspiration could strike at the most… — Heather Barbieri Copy Share Image
“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“And there was nothing quite like the surprise attack of a snarling black bear, even one missing all forty-two teeth, to urge… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“It was the sunlight coming through the window that woke Alex up; mother nature's own alarm clock rudely snapped him back to… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
“Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise… — Richard Bach 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“the Times reported last week that reading literary fiction increases one’s empathy and emotional intelligence.” — Kelly Luce Copy Share Image
“It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.’ Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.” — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“As beautiful and euphoric as the Balloon Days could be, they were an illusion. It was time he built his life in… — Kristi Strong Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time Karen saw somebody nobody else could see. She thought to ask an old man: who were you? Once… — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
“It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one… — Faiqa Mansab 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
“I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“We just move on, don’t we, with traitors still amongst us? But there was one thought that wouldn’t go away. If I… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“She’d discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom,… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
“It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“You are there and to their ears, being a Syrian sounds like you’re unclean, shameful, indecent; it’s like you owe the world… — Asaad Almohammad 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
