Quotes About Literary trends

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.

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The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'

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.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

Books don't go out of fashion with children. They just go out of fashion with adults and publishers.

I wrote 'The Searcher' because I love westerns, and they've fallen out of fashion.

When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me.

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.