Fiction Quotes

...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

~ Virginia Woolf

Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget.~Crispin.~

~ J.l. Clayton

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.

~ Stefan Molyneux

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

~ Marisha Pessl

Oh. C’mon, pretty girl. I like it when ya scream.” The leader breathed into my ear. I spat as good as I could on his hand. He jumped back glaring. I said, “Funny. You like it when I scream? Yet you cover my mouth!” I laughed then winced.

~ J.l. Clayton

Why can’t I take you? Why is it so hard? You have the other half of my soul; with you I will be complete! So. Then. Why?” Crispin murmured clenching his fists. Oh, he pitied the fool who would be in his way once he returned to his domain. “Oh, what suffering will befall them in her place,” he smiled wickedly. ~Crispin~

~ J.l. Clayton

Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to be himself?

~ Milkweed L. Augustine

To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams.

~ Rob Shepherd

To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams

~ Rob Shepherd

It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

~ François Mauriac

A fiction writer is nothing more than the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate

~ Carl Henegan

It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...

~ Italo Calvino

I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or cut off or ignore! I AM CURRENCY! - Nevel Walker

~ Whitney L. Grady

Outside of the usual bar or nightclub, it's not every day that I get a drink bought for me-at least not by strangers and certainly not on a workday. On that Saturday, in September 2010, it was from three separate individuals.

~ Jason Leclerc

I have been incapable of moving, even a finger or an eye, for at least a year now. I feel relatively certain about this timeframe because I have been watching the crepe myrtle outside the window of the room I am in...

~ Jason Leclerc

Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is pretty lame. My wife and I were having a drink on our back porch and I mentioned a concept I'd been mulling over. She suggested that I write it down, and so I figured I'd make a few notes and get it out of my system. No matter how I tried though, it just wouldn't let me write it in any other way than a story. Believe me when I say I tried, but 63,000 words later I realized that I needed a chart to track the plot and personas to maintain character consistency. So I just gave up and let it write itself from that point on. As far as I'm concerned at this point, I'm just hanging on and trying to keep up.

~ Jason Faris

NOTHING IS GREATER THAN ITS SOURCE

~ Chukwuso Stephen Akachukwu

She began sobbing again. “I’m not ready to die.

~ T.c. Avey

I tried to hate you, to forgive you, all just to forget you, but I'm only capable of loving you. You're tattooed onto my skin, and the more I try to erase you, the deeper you sink in.

~ Mirella Muffarotto

My whore of a brother has done it again. Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess. I think I hate him. Poseidon to his brother, Zeus.

~ Yelle Hughes

It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun altogether.

~ Kiera Cass

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories...

~ Geoff Dyer

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

~ Alison Croggon

I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.

~ Lincoln Michel

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

~ Mario Vargas Llosa

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

~ Lauren Destefano

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

~ Mario Vargas Llosa

Grandpa Sereno: There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. Fear is the REAL danger and we must start to put all our efforts into fighting THAT instead of each other. Fight fear not people!!! Let there be light!

~ Sipporah Joseph

I mutter and mutter and no one to listen. I speak my words in Japanese and my daughter will not hear them. The words that come from our ears, our mouths, they collide in the space between us.Obachan, please! I wish you would stop that. Is it too much to ask for some peace and quiet? You do this on purpose, don’t you? Don’t you! I just want some peace. Just stop! Please, just stop.Gomennasai. Waruine, Obachan wa. Solly. Solly.Ha! Keiko, there is method in my madness. I could stand on my head and quote Shakespeare until I had a nosebleed, but to no avail, no one hears my language. So I sit and say the words and will, until the wind or I shall die. Someone, something must stand against this wind and I will. I am.

~ Hiromi Goto

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

~ Mario Vargas Llosa

She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all?

~ S. Elle Cameron

Shimmel: “NEVER TRUST THE GOYIM. They are just like these other weird dangerous people, Messianic Jews! How dare Jews become “Christian-like”, Messianic? We should cherem (ban) them from every aspect of Jewish life. And we must strip them of every Jewish privilege!

~ Sipporah Joseph

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

~ Sol Luckman

Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch.What happened? Matt asked, gasping.I went from one person to the next, trying to wake them up, but they were all dead, wrote Daft Donald.

~ Nancy Farmer

Sarucha (age 8): Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén! she exclaimed.

~ Sipporah Joseph

Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.

~ Sipporah Joseph

Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long list of chores, for me, Leya Truelong, this was a day like no other. Today, Wren River was touched by the fantastic. Desiccate by Bonnie Ferrante

~ Bonnie Ferrante

Philippe to his mother do stop chasing after a carriage that has a runaway mare.

~ E.l.r. Jones Formerly

The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.

~ Stephen Harker