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There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading…

— Anne Lamott

Romance is the most read genre of fiction in the world - but people always undermine it.

— Nicola Coughlan

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing…

— Neil Cross

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas…

— Bret Lott

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more…

— Irvine Welsh

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in…

— Norman Spinrad

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't…

— Peter York

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

— Aleksandar Hemon

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

— Will Self

Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it…

— Joseph Brodsky