Emotional intelligence Quote by Kelly Luce

As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started reading more…

— Jed Mercurio

“As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.”

— Edmund Crispin

The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the…

— Paul Fry

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few…

— Sophie Hannah

“I'm equally sure, however, that I won't walk into a lamp-post while reading {literature}, like I did with {a legal thriller} all those years…

— Nick Hornby

“"I always read everything when I was a kid-and I do mean everything, from Nancy Drew to Dickens to my dad's John D. MacDonald-but…

— Barbara O'Neal

“The signal has been sent and ignored so many times that it has learned to send itself more quietly.”

— Asif Kabir

“Being a writer of 'literary fiction' means going on and on about something long after the reader has gotten the idea. ...Dan Ahearn”

— Dan Ahearn

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

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

— Dean Koontz

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love…

— Robert Gottlieb

[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off…

— Emily Barton