Between Quote by Peter Temple

“...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.”

— Bruce Meyer

“There's no difference between pulp fiction and highbrow fiction, one is as good as the other, the only difference is the aura they have,…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social…

— Michael Moorcock

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other…

— Tommy McCarthy

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

— Roland Barthes

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

— Bruce Boxleitner

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

— Denis Donoghue

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante