Alive Quote by Thomas Ligotti

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

— Eric Brown

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

“I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only the prejudice…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

— Philippa Gregory

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly…

— Ben Lerner

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

— William Golding

I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to…

— Karin Slaughter

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham