About Quote by George Murray

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor

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

In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of…

— Lauren Groff

Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really…

— Henry Rollins

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they…

— Michael Korda

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

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a…

— Michelle Dean

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

I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected…

— Rachel Kushner

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they…

— Tananarive Due

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem