Quote by Donald Maass

“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can…

— Anonymous

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

— Dale Peck

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.

— Debra Monroe

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I've read a lot of fiction from writers just starting out, and the dialogue is a little bit forced, or it's almost too teenager-y,…

— Sara Shepard

I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines. Things that…

— Don Winslow

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

— Frank Peretti

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to…

— Sarah Caudwell

“Cat Rambo: Where do you think the perennial debate between what is literary fiction and what is genre is sited? Norman Spinrad: I think…

— Norman Spinrad

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor