Fiction Criticism Quotes

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author and say, "Hey, okay. I'm interrupting the narrator here. I'm Bret Easton Ellis, and I'm the author."

I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is, I think, a good time. A lot of fiction comes out right now. So, I like reading the memoir. I love memoir, the biography, auto bio.

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

I love crime fiction, and I'm proud to be part of it, but I'm not without criticism for my own genre.

I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.