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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 more than a genre in itself.

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

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

I don't read fiction at all.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.