Fiction Quotes

The more I learn about life and people, the more I realise that everyone has a story and everyone’s story is the biggest in their own mind.” - Laylla Jonson

~ L.b. Malpass

As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.

~ Orson Scott Card

Probably your biggest mistake was doing funk-dance to Unchained Melody,” the dog offered earnestly. “It’s a ballad, Alf, and to be honest, it’s one of the slowest songs I can think of. You’d have been better off doing a slow waltz to something with that tempo. The other factor may have been the large amount of beer you consumed beforehand.

~ Mark Jackman

Remember Whose You Are.

~ Kelly L. Ward

We want to believe that this life is longer than it is, but in the grand scheme of the universe our existence equals the amount of time it takes a warm breeze to blow through your hair on a spring day.

~ Paul S. Anderson

Wawashkeshthese apples arefor you,red on the whitesnow,their cider tangwill find youin the gray woods.There is a storyhow a snakeoffered an apple,so sweet, so cold,those bite wassorrow.--excerpt from Eric Gadzinski's poem Wawashkeshgiwis from The Way North

~ Ron Riekki

In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ...

~ Susi Moore

In writing, there is art. And in art, there is craft ...

~ Susi Moore

King Yorandt to Kristina in book three of Fracture the Secret Enemy Saga~Secretsrelease date: Summer 2014 Even the master does not play perfectly. He can only hope to make fewer mistakes than his opponent, and that in the end, he is the victor. Sajah (chess) is a ruthless game where the pieces are all pawns and the Queen is the true killer. She spares no one to protect the king. The king however, is ruled by all of the pieces that lay before him, even his opponent. Every move is a decision that can change the whole board, and the endgame.

~ Virginia Mckevitt

How can she explain to him that every tear takes her further and further away from the box of razors that lies between them. How can she explain that she is terrified of such a thing happening. That although she thought she wanted freedom from her implements, she doesn't know if she can handle what she's experiencing now. That she wants to know that she is still in charge of her grief. That her blades have always done her bidding.

~ Julia Hoban

And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to feel this kind of grief, and she doesn't know if she can handle it, because it really hurts, hurts her more than the razor ever could.

~ Julia Hoban

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

~ Nora Roberts

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

~ Max Barry

It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she was gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

~ Haruki Murakami

And yet, as she sits there with him on the window seat, with his strong arms around her, she knows that if she can survive crying, then there are other things she can survive too. And that if some things are lost to her forever, there are others that she has not yet begun to experience. She knows too that what she wants is not because passion is the natural antidote to grief, but because it is the most natural, most perfect, most complete expression of what she feels for him.

~ Julia Hoban

There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be redone. Come this tar, and you can't come back.

~ Haruki Murakami

There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be undone. Come this far, and you can't go back.

~ Haruki Murakami

In life, when you have a partner–someone you can rely on and trust with everything that you are–there isn’t anything you can’t accomplish. I will always be there for you, if you let me.

~ Christina L. Barr

Perhaps our suffering is part of our humanity.

~ Christina L. Barr

Lo! A call for a bloody trial-Retribution should it hail!Whose? you ask,For he that deems it a worthy task!

~ Carol Robi

All it takes, is one leap of faith.

~ E.k. Dobbins

I believe every story that is made in the mind of an author, has a trace in real world.A historical fiction completely or partly has happened in the past and a fiction will happen in the future. We are seeing many devices which Jules Verne predicted in his novels!One day you will hear about an invisible fellow. This thought causes motivation and gaiety for me when writing a story.

~ Hamid Karima

Conventional wisdom may not be wise.Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.Freedom of choice is predetermined.Don’t believe anything you read!

~ L. Anthony

It was as if-this is something I thought of only later, of course-she was gently peeling bcd one layer after another hat covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

~ Haruki Murakami

She suddenly felt herself gasping for air, as if she’d momentarily forgotten how to breathe. She rocked back in her chair and nearly fell over, then slumped against the green-covered table. The bowl fell from her fingers, shattering at her feet, broken glass scattering everywhere.

~ Joe Derouen

Pain is an inevitable part when you truly love.

~ Vinsfortin

It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she were gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

~ Haruki Murakami

How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?

~ Stephanie Vaughn

... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.

~ Lauren Slater

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.

~ Lauren Slater

We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of the Army's clean streets and walks.

~ Stephanie Vaughn

Hate was the blazing beauty that consumed the world in its flames. Love could never consume anything but the heart of a fool.

~ Christina L. Barr

Every minute I decide not to kill you is a minute your life is saved. You owe me everything.

~ Christina L. Barr

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.

~ Vanessa M. Chattman

Life is the courier of the universal brilliance. Elysse

~ Elysse Poetis

C, it was like my breath was stolen. My heart seemed to merge with yours. When you came into my life, all I wanted was you. All I thought about was you. Your smile, your laugh, your lips, and your eyes seemed to hold me captive.” ~Tru~

~ J.l. Clayton

Jace’s husky voice almost came out in a purr. He said, “You want to make a bet on that, Charlie.” Oh yeah, he can sell that stuff alright. “No worries,” Jace was saying. “I only have eyes for you.” He touched the tip of my nose with his finger. I swatted him away. Jace laughed. ~Jace~

~ J.l. Clayton

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

~ Hugh Howey

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.

~ Robin Mckinley

Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the character of those who read them. We live within the narrative as creatures in search of an ending, in search of happiness.

~ N.t. Wright