“The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.” TwoSexSinFictionToo MuchWorstTasteSentimentsPornographySentimentalityBad Taste Author:Flannery O'Connor
“Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day or two.” TwoBookFictionNovelTasteIllNon Fiction Author:O.R. Melling
“I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.” DifferentReadingPoorFictionSituationGrowing UpGrowingFansMovementHugeGrewKingsTasteGrew UpBeatsVariousSaneHuntersEssaysNon FictionPiersHunter's Thompson Author:Corey Taylor
“A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.” WritingLooksFilmYoungFictionCrimePersonalityHeroTasteMediumsSupposed To BeLazyGrantsCrime FictionFiction WritingProtagonistsTaste In Music Author:Peter Temple
“... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.” StoriesHumanitySocialFictionNovelCrazyTasteLongingRationalImmortalShort StoryHeroismBehaviourObstinacyPortraiture Book:Stories Source: Stories
“The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.” FirstsMayBookLiteratureFictionNovelTasteMassScience FictionRateCreditGenuineInstanceGenreVolumePornographyTrashRatiosShady Author:Susan Sontag
“I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.” PeopleTryingStoriesBigsRunningLiteratureMy OwnInterestingFictionEventsTasteOrdinaryTablesBe GoodKitchenParksThemeGroundedOrdinary PeopleGood StoryTrailersBackdropKitchen TableTrailer Park Author:Neal Stephenson
“I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.” PeopleThinkingStuffBitsFictionTasteViolentSubtlety Author:Martin Amis
“So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language or form, places that don't bore me. And this happens via hundreds of quick micro-decisions that are done "to taste," so to speak. So the experience is one of groping toward that interesting place - trying to leap away from anything that seems boring, or about which I don't have strong opinions. Essentially trying to avoid that moment where, devoid of any strong feeling, I start conceptualizing.” TryingDoneMomentsFeelingsSeemsHappensFormSpeakLanguageStrongTermDecisionInterestingFictionOpinionTasteBoringThat MomentLeapBoresStrong FeelingInteresting PlacesStrong Opinions Author:George Saunders
“Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.” IndividualFictionTasteChairsPassiveInputMadeleines Author:Hilary Mantel
“My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.” EndsRunningFilmFictionFantasyDramaTasteLowsScience FictionBudgets Author:Michael Sheen