Book Quote by Anonymous

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that what is…

— Alice McDermott

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

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Books should be both enlightening and entertaining.

— Ravi Subramanian

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

— Roald Dahl

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because…

— Mohsin Hamid

“When I sit down with a novel in my hand I want to enjoy the experience. That means having fun. Too many books take…

— Clayton J. Callahan

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

— Glen Duncan

“I just don't understand why some people think that every book you read ought to be "improving". No one goes to the cinema with…

— Catherine Jones