Books Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“g sees himself as an independent reader: he buys all of the books on the literary prize lists.”

— Joanna Walsh

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…

— J. M. Ledgard

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

— Karen Russell

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

— Dennis Lehane

“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

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

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

— Dean Koontz

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love…

— Robert Gottlieb

[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