Certain Quote by Emma Donoghue

I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and probably won't…

— Jennifer Weiner

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

— William H. Gass

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

— Carol Ann Duffy

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson

I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When…

— Willa Cather

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set there are,…

— Emma Donoghue

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

— Don DeLillo

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

— Richard Flanagan

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

— Glen Duncan

“Singling out “women’s fiction” for genre derision never fails to piss me off. Somehow worse when women do it. Case in pt: Editor says…

— Kelley Armstrong

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

— Khaled Hosseini