Books Quote by Michelle Dean

Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin…

— Walter Kirn

I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like…

— Rainbow Rowell

I think the media in general hasn't been very kind to fat women or fat people. We see so many insensitive portrayals of plus-sized…

— Shannon Purser

I never wanted to be known as a fat comic, just a comic who happens to be fat.

— Ralphie May

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power…

— Kevin Patterson

Fat has a range of experiences.

— Becky Albertalli

The general impression about fat people is that they are romantic, funny and good dancers.

— Satish Kaushik

I'm topical as hell. That's not going to change if I lose weight. There are a lot of comics that do 'fat jokes' better…

— Ralphie May

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely…

— Keira Knightley

There are some great skinny girls, but it's about characters, isn't it? That's what I find attractive. People who've had interesting lives and tell…

— Giles Deacon

“In the very same books that tell us to locate our self-worth not in how we look but in who we are and how…

— Ruby Tandoh

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely…

— Julie Burchill