About Quote by L.A. Weatherly

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books,

— Maurice Sendak

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books…

— Karen Russell

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

— Mohsin Hamid

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365…

— Anonymous

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

Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to…

— N. K. Jemisin

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then…

— Stephen King

In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that…

— Sarah Strohmeyer

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the…

— Paul Theroux

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books…

— Philip Pullman

Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent…

— Michael Scott