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“To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a…

— Claire Messud

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

— Anne Fadiman

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by…

— Elizabeth George

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

— Charlie Kaufman

“I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only the prejudice…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

— Danilo Kis