Books Quote by Ken Follett

I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of…

— Dana Spiotta

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

— Louise Bernikow

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

— Anonymous

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

— Peter Temple

Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument…

— Perry Anderson

Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided…

— Dean Koontz

“If there's another writer, like Ross McDonald or Raymond Chandler, and all they're writing are mysteries, they won't be accepted," he said. "And that's…

— Walter Mosley

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

— Hilary Mantel

“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

Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of…

— Allan Massie

If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way…

— Suhayl Saadi

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in…

— Jim Harrison