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Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.

~ A.d. Posey

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I’m a little bit of a plot junkie. I like stakes in my books. Sometimes storytelling gets a bit of a bad rap. “Plot’s easy” or “there’s a higher art we are all aspiring to.” Yes, first and foremost we are all aspiring to that art but I also think it has to have a certain propulsiveness, a certain thing that’s keeping me turning the pages. No matter how great the voice is you will have problems in the plot that will enable somebody to put it down. There are too many things competing for everyone’s attention to allow anyone to put that book down. I don’t want the reviewer to put it down because they’ve got 50 galleys stacked up. I don’t want the reader to put it down.

~ Lee Boudroux

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Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing.

~ A.d. Posey

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Typically, we start out with enthusiasm and then grow unsure--sometimes about everything.

~ Eric Maisel Ph.d.

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Crushes don't just develop over time,they are built over the foundation of basic trust.

~ Sidharth Oberoi

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You said my name and my heart went rogue

~ Zandile

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Whether or not the couple ends up together at the end of a book doesn't determine whether the book has a happy ending or not. As long as the two people end up happy, it doesn't really matter if they end up happy together.

~ Colleen Hoover

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He's made me believe I'm worth love of the liquid kind, you know, the kind that seeps to all my damaged parts.

~ Zandile

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If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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My one true love remains my self... I dump myself occasionally to keep it interesting

~ Cassandra Clare

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When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

~ Michael Dirda

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Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.

~ Lawrence Block

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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.

~ Christina Baker Kline

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Would not the earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with poisonous shrubs... Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance?

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.

~ Neil Gaiman

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So many hilarious scenes and seductions!

~ Dennis Mckay

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Well, here we are.Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.

~ Michel Faber

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Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

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Blake gave Selena a nudge Remember what I taught you, itsy-bitsy-babe

~ A.e. Kirk

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I miss home. I miss ignorance. I've seen a beauty I can't fathom in the Aquifer, and met a girl who moves my heart.

~ Jonathan Friesen

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Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

~ Ray Bradbury

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One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies

~ Kanza Javed

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Gossip is not adopted by the bored. It is an art of discourse adopted by those who have experienced absolutely nothing thrilling in their lives; they have never really fallen in love or casually spoken to a complete stranger, and they never dreamt of doing anything extraordinary. They are a group of people with dull lives and souls.

~ Kanza Javed

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And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure.

~ Kanza Javed

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I write fictionWhat’s fiction?Fiction is an improvement on life.

~ Charles Bukowski

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Freedom is a state of mind.

~ Sophia Elaine Hanson

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The only real purpose of time is to escort humanity in and out of this mortal coil in an orderly fashion.

~ Charles Stoll

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I don't know. But it takes a special woman to have such a great love - Zhongwen

~ Asma Nadia

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Both tears and sweat are salty. but none of them are faulty. the tears can get you somewhere, the sweat will make you only wet.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.

~ Nevil Shute

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How would I feel about hearing that the plague killed another nearby village a month later? Didn’t I tell you stupidity is the eighth sin?Excerpt From: Cameron Jace. “.

~ Cameron Jace

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it was so beautiful', he said. 'the Three Pagodas Pass must be one of the loveliest places in the world. you've got this broad valley with the river running down it, and the jungle forest, and the mountains....we used to sit by the river and watch the sun setting behind the mountains, sometimes, and say what a marvellous place it would be to come to for a holiday. however terrible a prison camp may be, it makes a difference if its beautiful.

~ Nevil Shute

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Be the best you can be for yourself!

~ Susan Marie Murdoch

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But hereto is replied that the poets give names to men they write of, which argueth a conceit of an actual truth, and so, not being true, proveth a falsehood. And doth the lawyer lie then, when, under the names of John of the Stile, and John of the Nokes, he putteth his case? But that is easily answered: their naming of men is but to make their picture the more lively, and not to build any history. Painting men, they cannot leave men nameless. We see we cannot play at chess but that we must give names to our chess-men; and yet, me thinks, he were a very partial champion of truth that would say we lied for giving a piece of wood the reverend title of a bishop.

~ Philip Sidney

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At the end of the world, music always played on like a bad movie.

~ Mav Skye

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Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin.

~ Isabelle Hardesty

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It was a fictional story, but like any good fiction, without the need to adjust or conceal the truth, it actually might bethe greatest expression of truth.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

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I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly

~ Nevil Shute

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And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

~ Kate Atkinson

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