Books Quote by Tucker Max

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Anonymous

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

— Dean Koontz

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be…

— Stephen King

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

— Alistair MacLeod

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

— Matt Haig

Literature is news that stays news.

— Ezra Pound

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

— Farley Mowat

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

— Karen Russell

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

— Gao Xingjian

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

— Mark Haddon