Fiction Quote by Ravi Subramanian

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

— Theodore Sturgeon

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On…

— Robert Harris

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365…

— Anonymous

Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to…

— N. K. Jemisin

By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.

— Lynn Nottage

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

— Martin Cruz Smith

There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these…

— L.A. Weatherly

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that…

— George Stephen

I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business.

— Janet Evanovich