Being Quote by David Shields

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer.…

— Richard K. Morgan

I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it…

— Emily Barton

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a…

— Francisco Goldman

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

— Mohsin Hamid

It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

— Veronica Roth

I like writing historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It…

— Prince Philip

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous…

— Helen Keller

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns…

— Barbara Kingsolver