Addresses Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

'Slice of life' is not a genre I had experimented with much, and it's quite difficult.

— Rasika Dugal

“But the slice-of-life novel is really not so much a world apart as an interlude - like the conference or the film set, the…

— Susan Cooper

Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book…

— Otto Penzler

“If being a writer doesn't make you humble, nothing else will." ~ Verge Le Noir”

— Verge LeNoir

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?”

— Dean Koontz

The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided,…

— Doris Lessing

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

— Robert Stone

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

“For my money, noir boils down to bleak humanism – or, to put it more plainly: shit options, bad decisions, and dire consequences. The…

— Chris F. Holm

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

— Mary McCarthy

“Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.”

— Julie Rodelli