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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas…

— Bret Lott

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

— Farley Mowat

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does is approach…

— Torrey Peters

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a…

— Edmund White

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

— Laura Lippman

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

— Tucker Max