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Sue Grafton's 'A Is for Alibi', the 1982 novel that introduced the world to private detective Kinsey Millhone, wasn't seen as the pioneering achievement…

— Sarah Weinman

The quality I appreciated most about Grafton was her loyalty. She stuck with 'Kinsey Millhone' and the alphabet series conceit for her entire career…

— Sarah Weinman

“Discussions of the effects of serial publication of Victorian novels on their authors and readers1 usually draw attention to the author's peculiar opportunities for…

— Ian Gregor

“Julia had once been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for distribution among…

— George Orwell

The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what…

— David Cannadine

American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be…

— James Branch Cabell

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

“It turned out to be a crock of shit. They had printed manuals with gender-appropriate terminology and the like, but detectives still called gay…

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in…

— Kate DiCamillo

“The BBC had made a television series a few years later but for her nothing could match the magic of the books, which had…

— Jeremy Duns

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes