Books Quote by Glen Duncan

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

— Gary Shteyngart

I think of my novels as entertainments.

— Anonymous

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a…

— Anonymous

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

— Michael Imperioli

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it…

— Lynn Abbey

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

— Dan Brown

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

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

— Dean Koontz