The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James.... →
George R. R. Martin
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter Matthiessen
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are... →
Armistead Maupin
I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need... →
Simon Mawer
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Vladimir Nabokov
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
V. S. Naipaul
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Mira Nair