Books Quote by Mario

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a…

— Anonymous

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many…

— Gore Vidal

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I think of my novels as entertainments.

— Anonymous

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the…

— Sarah Waters

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because…

— Mohsin Hamid

In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart,…

— Ruth Glick

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

— Glen Duncan

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

— Kevin Wilson

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing…

— Anonymous