Book Quote by Keir Graff

“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

“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they…

— Caroline Rody

“I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading…

— Rita Stradling

“…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight at you;…

— Martin Amis

“Love Fiction for Fiction Lovers”

— Selene Grace Silver

“What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully…

— Rick Gekoski

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 is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish