Genre Fiction Quotes

11 quotes by 9 authors

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. — Thomas M. Disch
If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction. — Glen Duncan
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. — Yann Martel
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
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James… — George R. R. Martin
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, itâ€™s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles… — Neil Gaiman
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four… — Mark Haddon
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so… — Ruth Glick
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same… — Mark Haddon
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and… — Julia Quinn

Who Wrote These Genre Fiction Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 11 Genre Fiction Quotes as follows: