Fiction Quotes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
2733 Jennifer Elisabeth
How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.
4148 Jennifer Elisabeth
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.
3713 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.
4149 Norton Juster
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
2024 Evan Meekins
War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.
1165 Evan Meekins
Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.
3985 David Housholder
And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.
2243 Kristine Cuevas
I loved the feeling of finally falling in love to someone who would love me back.
3220 John Green
The marks we leave are too often scars.
2903 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.
3430 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.
4277 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.
2314 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.
3842 Albert Camus
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
3107 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..
1284 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.
1828 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.
3221 Kim Harrison
Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.
2421 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.
4592 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.
4751 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.
3097 Roman Payne
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city
4889 Doris Lessing
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
4944 Khaled Hosseini
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
2483 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.
4657 Tim O'Brien
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
1698 Michael Bassey Johnson
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.
1942 Stephen King
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
3252 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.
1989 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.
2557 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.
1824 Priya Ardis
He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.
3568 Priya Ardis
Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.
4568 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.
2851 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.
3296 Elizabeth Englewood
Now if only I could spread the love between you two like I can spread this butter.
2966 Virginia Woolf
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
4248 E.M. Forster
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
4024 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.
3291 Diane Setterfield
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
3416 Charles Baxter
When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
1441 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.
3830 Iain M. Banks
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
2339 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.
3234 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.
2985 Lauren Groff
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
3125 Neil Gaiman
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
2283 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.
1250 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.
4839 Wilkie Collins
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
3836 Henry Mosquera
Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.
3158 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.
1692 William H. Gass
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
2978 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.
4545 Bret Easton Ellis
The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.
4988 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.
4859 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.
4539 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.
3768 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.
3691 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.
3255 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.
1712 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.
3339 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.
2375 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.
1099 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.
1021 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.
3566 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.
4722 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.
2924 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.
4006 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.
3527 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.
3288 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.
1091 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.
4263 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.
3478 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.
3565 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…
4539 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!
2367 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.
2109 Cordwainer Smith
We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...
3067 Brittany Hawes
...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
2803 Virginia Woolf
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
4036 W.J. Raymond
A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.
2758 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.
4868 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.
3215 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.
3498 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.
4394 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.
1184 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.
4982 Mike Dickenson
Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.
1280 E.J. Stevens
Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.
2283 Nikolas Lee
Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.
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