Aim Quote by Umberto Eco

Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach…

— Michelle Dean

“Thrillers, like all genre fiction, remain for the most part “beneath.” There is a feeling in literature, more than any other art form, that…

— Will Lavender

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

— Denis Johnson

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love…

— Julia Quinn

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to…

— Nicholas Sparks

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

— Denis Johnson

I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal things in…

— David Means

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances.…

— Sandra Brown

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters;…

— Penelope Lively