Books Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre…

— Orson Scott Card

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by…

— John Clute

Mystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason…

— Ned Beauman

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

— Karen Russell

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

— Lisa Lutz

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you…

— Charlie Jane Anders

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery…

— Anne Tyler

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that…

— Tana French

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

— Thomas Perry

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

— Yann Martel

There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have…

— Celeste Ng