Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs.
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.
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 don't generally read a lot of fiction.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.