Fiction Quotes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Jennifer Elisabeth

How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who
How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around,
I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.

Rand Miller

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

Norton Juster

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Karen Azinger

Life was a destiny waiting to be seized.

Evan Meekins

War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.

Evan Meekins

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

Stacey T. Hunt

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.. Stacey T. Hunt
Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

David Housholder

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.

Kristine Cuevas

I loved the feeling of finally falling in love to someone who would love me back..
I loved the feeling of finally falling in love to someone who would love me back.

Simone Elkeles

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

John Green

The marks we leave are too often scars.. John Green
The marks we leave are too often scars.

S.G. Holster

It’s a very private moment when your heart breaks. I was thankful we were alone. I knew I couldn’t keep her, but I would always do anything to protect her.

Elizabeth Scott

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

Brad Thor

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

Margaret George

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Jodi Picoult

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Albert Camus

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.. Albert Camus
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

J.R. Ward

V shook his head. “Remember what you saw in that clearing, cop? How’d you like that anywhere near a female you loved?”

Butch put down the Bud without drinking from it. His eyes traveled over Rhage’s body.

“We’re going to need a shitload of steel,” the human muttered.

J.R. Ward

Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.

Kim Harrison

Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.

Kim Harrison

Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space.

Kim Harrison

A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel’s End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And there’s the punch line.

John Cheever

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Roman Payne

She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city

Doris Lessing

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Khaled Hosseini

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Tim O'Brien

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Frederic Raphael

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without
I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the best i can for you.

Stephen King

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Vera Nazarian

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things - stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Roman Payne

When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.

Robin Schone

A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.

Priya Ardis

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.

Priya Ardis

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

Daniel Amory

I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”
“How would you introduce her?” I asked.
“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.

Priya Ardis

Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.

Elizabeth Englewood

Now if only I could spread the love between you two like I can spread this butter.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

E.M. Forster

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

Flannery O'Connor

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Diane Setterfield

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Charles Baxter

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

Nicole Christie

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough-I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

Phyllis A. Whitney

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

Iain M. Banks

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

Flannery O'Connor

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

Tim O'Brien

A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.

Lauren Groff

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

Neil Gaiman

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

Stephen King

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

Wilkie Collins

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Henry Mosquera

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.

S.A. Reid

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

William H. Gass

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

Ted Conover

...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.

William H. Gass

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

Bret Easton Ellis

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

Elizabeth Hardwick

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

Michael Chabon

Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest as written by isolate Miranda, raised on the romances in her father's library.

Sue Monk Kidd

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.

Bret Easton Ellis

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

Christopher Stocking

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

Edith Wharton

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.

Jennifer Elisabeth

This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world.

Jennifer Elisabeth

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.

Jennifer Elisabeth

You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Recognize that you have been chosen to be alive, right now, at this exact moment in time and know that none of that is random. There is something about you, your past or your future that is required at this exact moment in history. We need to know who you are and what you have been through.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Your passions don’t have to connect to one another and no one needs to sign off on them. Passion isn’t logical… it’s only the fuel which keeps our souls alive. Let it be that simple.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Sometimes you have to let go a little bit and travel the path of least resistance but this doesn’t mean that you quit when things get tough, as you are working towards a goal! It just means that you may only be able to see a rough draft of your final destination, right now, and that it’s safe to explore along the way.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Finding yourself and creating a life that feels authentic and safe is the hardest, most important work that we will ever do and for girls, especially young girls, there is no one more equipped to do this work.

Jennifer Elisabeth

The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.

Jennifer Elisabeth

As girls, we will do anything for the person whom we love. We will scale buildings in the rain or run through fire if it means saving our love’s life. There is absolutely nothing more life altering that the fire burning inside of our souls for the one we want most…

Jennifer Elisabeth

For most of us free-thinking, wild hearts, our relationship with God or the Universe will go through peaks and valleys – transforming into new concepts and beliefs, completely disappearing, at times, only then to instantly explode back into existence by something even as small as a sunset!

Christy A. Campbell

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.

Cordwainer Smith

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...

Jerril Thomas Abraham

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

Brittany Hawes

...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

Virginia Woolf

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

W.J. Raymond

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

Brandi L. Bates

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

Nina Sankovitch

I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. Even fiction portrays truth: good fiction is truth.

Erica Sehyun Song

The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.

C.S. Woolley

It's 1am, I have fiction to write!

Sanhita Baruah

To write is to reveal oneself.
When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.
I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it - may be not about the characters, nor about the piece, but at least about the idea.

Destinee Hardwick

I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.

Don Roff

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Mike Dickenson

Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.

E.J. Stevens

Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.

Michael K. Bialys

The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it...

Nikolas Lee

Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.

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