Fiction Quotes

It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your plans.

~ Tracey Porter

There is no truth, only science and fiction.

~ Steven Brewis

Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay in bed enabling my hopelessness. I’d been the ugly in my world.

~ Rebecca Berto

There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.

~ Teju Cole

Why not?

~ Howard Feigenbaum

People in books were always so charming, and all their thoughts and actions so comprehensible. They all invariably had a clear, well-defined object in life, and strove through a few hundred engrossing pages to attain this object. They were all noble and generous, and their lives were bright and beautiful. What interesting and delightful moments Irene had passed in their society! They had made her laugh and cry and suffer and rejoice, and had entertained her with the brilliancy of their wit. How dull and colourless real people had appeared beside these heroes and heroines of fiction.

~ Aimée Dostoyevsky

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

~ Mark Rubinstein

If I could turn my thoughts into spoken words and share them with someone, they’d become real and mean something. Now, they were only lines that could be erased when I didn’t feel them anymore or hopeful thoughts that, like shadows, would disappear when the sun went away. - Rebecca Meyer, Crooked Lines

~ Holly Michael

Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in the presence of the unspeakable and a guilty gratitude that it is not yet their fate.

~ Louis Auchincloss

Her heart was telling her to trust him, but it wouldn’t be the first time that that foolish muscle, there in the middle of her chest, had betrayed her.

~ Mirella Muffarotto

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

~ Neil Gaiman

No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really understand the condition if you've never found yourself in it?

~ Sherry D. Ficklin

Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done and however sincere the desire for objectivity - remains literature. History's third dimension is always fiction

~ Hermann Hesse

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it,but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

~ Michael Hogan

Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that’s what counts.

~ Rawi Hage

Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.

~ Conrad Brooks

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

~ Lorin Stein

His kiss was light but lingering, like smoke from shivering lips on a freezing winter morning.

~ Rebecca Berto

History is written by the survivors.

~ Gareth Johnson

In this strife-torn valley, I have always been tormented by feelings of indefinite and eternal uncertainty. The Half Mother is an outcome of those feelings.

~ Shahnaz Bashir

Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what I hope my work does anyway. I want someone to read it and know that they aren't alone in the universe. I want my words to act as connective tissue.

~ Patrick Hicks

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

~ Mal Peet

Fears can be a healthy thing, they give you something to conquer

~ Alonna Williams

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

~ Paul Auster

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~ B W Wrighthard

That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.

~ John Grisham

Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that.

~ Arti Honrao

There was clairvoyance to their words and a tenderness in their inflections that instilled even in the most cynical of male hearts that faith and fate weren’t just words, they were our guides and as long as you kept your heart open, sooner or later love would find its way into it.

~ Eric Monsky

His only real financial failure came at the age of thirteen when, in an uncharacteristic error of judgement, he invested £200,000 of his own savings in wooden socks, an invention that never caught on as he had hoped.

~ Mark Jackman

The Butcher of Babylon featured in over 500 porn films between 1974 and 1982, and was best known for his motto: Come for the butcher, stay for the meat.

~ Mark Jackman

You, my reader, who see me close, wonder about my heartbeats and measure my words, you my close friend who know my eyes and the home of their prose, you, my only lover, who always move my life, my poetry's pace and rhyme,...I can not disclose the shape of metaphors, nor what they bashfully display behind the robes of their naked source; but you can use the eyes of heart to feel what they are made of. And if it's a tear or a smile I evoke, it means we are human, it means we care and we love. It means we are both beautiful. (Soar)

~ Soar

He had been inspired to start a career in the porn industry after reading the incredible tale of a Japanese man who avenged the death of his sister by going down on her best friend for seven days and seven nights.

~ Mark Jackman

If a wizard should take up residence in your garden and requests food, you are obliged to feed him.

~ Mark Jackman

Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast, it’s no good living in the fucking past.

~ Mark Jackman

The hamster-powered hat is the same as any other hat. It keeps your head warm and looks smart,' the inventor said. 'The hamster generates heat by running on the wheel. If you get a big enough hamster, it will keep your whole face warm.

~ Mark Jackman

Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?

~ Anthony Doerr

Suddenly, a voice called from the darkness. Taylor leapt like a salmon, then became rooted to the spot like a tin of salmon.

~ Mark Jackman

His only real financial failure came at the age of thirteen, when in an uncharacteristic error of judgement he invested £200,000 of his own savings in wooden socks, an invention that never caught on as he had hoped.

~ Mark Jackman

The hamster-powered hat is the same as any other hat. It keeps your head warm and looks smart,” the inventor said. “The hamster generates heat by running on the wheel. If you get a big enough hamster, it will keep your whole face warm.

~ Mark Jackman

The marks we leave are too often scars.

~ John Green