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• A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. — Thomas M. Disch
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• 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… — Mark Haddon
• The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and… — George R. R. Martin
• Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary… — 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.… — Neil Gaiman
• When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked,… — Mark Haddon
• In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it… — Ruth Glick
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• The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh… — Julia Quinn

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