Books Quote by Allegra Goodman

I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the science fiction…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many…

— Gore Vidal

Here's my theory: I think both fiction and role-playing games involve a narrative journey. When that journey never ends, it feeds an addictive cycle.…

— Allegra Goodman

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book…

— Jess Walter

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire to make…

— Klaus Teuber

A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view - something…

— Justin Cartwright

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace'…

— Karen Traviss

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

— Mark Haddon

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading…

— Karen Traviss

A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the reader. But…

— Robert Cormier