America Quote by Mohsin Hamid

I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't…

— Mohsin Hamid

We used to have a genre called Muslim social drama which nobody in the world has. Writers from North India and Bengal came and…

— Vivek Agnihotri

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

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels…

— Christopher Koch

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a…

— Shawn Johnson

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

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first…

— Karan Mahajan

There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think of writing…

— Michael Cunningham

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

— Ken Follett

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

— Jesse Eisenberg

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn