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I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

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

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Literature invents its own rules.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

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.