Book Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

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

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

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters;…

— Penelope Lively

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings…

— Eudora Welty

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

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

— Mario

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

— Andy Andrews

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

— Kathy Reichs

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Gary Shteyngart