All kinds Quote by Emily Barton

[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off…

— Emily Barton

Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful,…

— Cathleen Schine

“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas…

— Bret Lott

“A story, whether it be novel, short fiction, screenplay, play or poetry or any form of non-fiction, is like an ecosystem in which everything…

— Andrew Binks

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

— Dean Koontz

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art…

— Charles Stross

“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use, as a…

— Stanisław Lem

The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James.…

— George R. R. Martin

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing…

— Neil Cross

“For me, where genre ends and literature begins doesn’t matter. What matters is whether a given novel hits me with high impact. If it…

— Donald Maass

“Being a writer of 'literary fiction' means going on and on about something long after the reader has gotten the idea. ...Dan Ahearn”

— Dan Ahearn