“The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.” BookReadingLiteratureFictionNovelPercentScience FictionSevenOur TimeReviewsNinetyRubbishWorth ReadingGood Science Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.” ShouldPleasureFictionPrinciplesNovelPercentConcernCommittedNot Interested Author:Martin Amis
“I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.” WantNeedsUseSeemsStuffNovelFivePercentStealingAppropriateNinety Author:Paul Auster
“Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.” NovelHeardPercentEighty Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.” WritingFirstsNovelPercentOddScreenplaysScreenwriting Author:William Monahan