Literary Fiction Quotes

27 Literary Fiction quotes by 24 unique authors

• I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros
• It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]… — Michael Moorcock
• I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships,… — George R. R. Martin
• We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not… — Thomas L. Thompson
• Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice… — Dean Koontz
• The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but,… — Neil Cross
• In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has… — Paul Elie
• Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they… — Jo Nesbo
• Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. — Dennis Lehane
• I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things… — Jennifer Weiner
• I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I… — Anne Enright
• If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the… — J. M. Ledgard
• At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the… — Mark Haddon
• 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 kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. — Khaled Hosseini
• Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. — Dean Koontz
• I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they… — Barbara Kingsolver
• Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. — George R. R. Martin
• When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. — Richard Russo
• No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think… — Amy Tan
• Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is… — David Foster Wallace
• Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
• In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field… — Jeffrey R. Holland
• Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t… — Percival Everett
• If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis

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24 authors contributed a total of 27 Literary Fiction Quotes as follows:

• 2 Literary Fiction Quotes by Mark Haddon
• 2 Literary Fiction Quotes by George R. R. Martin
• 2 Literary Fiction Quotes by Dean Koontz
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Warren Ellis
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Thomas L. Thompson
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Sandra Cisneros
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Rosemary Clement-Moore
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Richard Russo
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Percival Everett
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Paul Elie
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Neil Cross
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Michael Moorcock
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Lev Grossman
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Khaled Hosseini
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Jo Nesbo
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Jennifer Weiner
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Jeffrey R. Holland
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by J. M. Ledgard
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Eleanor Catton
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Dennis Lehane
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Anne Enright
• 1 Literary Fiction Quote by Amy Tan