Class Quote by Steven Knight

Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment of things…

— Ash Sarkar

I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with its own…

— Steven Knight

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious…

— China Mieville

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to…

— Stephen Daldry

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

— Clive James

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

— Dale Peck

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

“Work—especially the sort of work that gets your hands dirty and that brands you as a member of the working class—no longer seems germane…

— Gerald Howard

“No soul or locale is too humble to be the site of entertaining and instructive fiction. Indeed, all other things being equal, the rich…

— John Updike

In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there…

— Colm Toibin

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

— Emile M. Cioran

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

— John Updike