John Scott - Fiction

Famous quotes containing the word fiction:

“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)

“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

“A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.”
—Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)