353 Quotes About Literary-fiction

What do writers look like?

A nose is ordinarily naked. A nose isn’t nipple, although there are similarities.

The emotion was the most important thing.

My best girl wore diesel. Steamy asphalt ribbons poured over her gravel shoulders. Curves that took me to Zanzibar....

She thought of his boat silhouetted against the horizon and the image of him hurrying toward her through the fog.

What were you doing all those years, after you disappeared?' Doug paused, unsure of his words. 'After she died.'Grace looked at the grave across the space she had been too weak to cross. 'I was learning to make music.

I’m looking for the exit.”“The Last Exit to Brooklyn, will it be?”“Er, no! Just the way out.”From "One man in his time

Her entire life, she’d been told sin was wrong, a black and white interpretation of what is evil and what is holy in the world—colored like a priest’s robe and collar—but she never believed it to be true. Sin was colorful: scarlet like rose blood, azure like skin deprived oxygen, violet as bruises, jade as rot; a colorful contradiction to the darkness and blinding light all are taught sin and holiness to be.

It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.