Black Quote by Jodi Picoult

I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I…

— Jodi Picoult

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

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

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does

— Edward James Olmos

“Cat Rambo: Where do you think the perennial debate between what is literary fiction and what is genre is sited? Norman Spinrad: I think…

— Norman Spinrad

In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements…

— Kristin Hannah

The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good…

— Robert Anton Wilson

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.

— Judd Apatow

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

— Tracy Kidder