Accolades Quote by Neil Cross

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing…

— Neil Cross

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.

— Neil Cross

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

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes…

— Neil Gaiman

“For me, where genre ends and literature begins doesn’t matter. What matters is whether a given novel hits me with high impact. If it…

— Donald Maass

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory…

— Anonymous

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't…

— Peter York

“[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult readers who…

— Philip Pullman

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

— Frank Peretti

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince…

— Lynn Coady