Awful Quote by William Golding

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

— Susie Bright

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

— Thomas Ligotti

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres -…

— Sara Sheridan

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited…

— Geraldine Brooks

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

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

— Michael Korda

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

— Anna Deavere Smith

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

— Steve Toltz

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt