Fiction Quotes

When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it.

~ T.a. Cline

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

~ Terry A. O'neal

I think the best fiction is about the absolute irrepressibility of love in the face of every circumstance to the contrary. Even in someone as dark, on the face of it, as Faulkner often is, there is that unquenchable glimmer....Grace will ever find a way. I don't think fiction has to be hokey, or end up hitting you on the head with positivity, to be life affirming. I think all we have to do is go on down to the bottom of the truth and hang out there in the dark for a bit, with nowhere to go but up, and grace will find a way.

~ Tim Farrington

She had traveled to more cities, had experienced more scenes, than anyone she knew, and still she had come away from it all with only an abysmal sense of dissatisfaction. When would it all begin, the good part of this story she was living? When would she find her destiny, her purpose? When would she have the control her mother wielded, the drive her father possessed? When would she cease living the same wretched days over and over? Why was she still feeling empty and meaningless? Why—after all this time—did her purpose in life still escape her?

~ H.l. Sudler

Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent.

~ Laura Esquivel

Curiosity is called curiosity because of how curiously it can creep into people’s behavior no matter what dangers are around.

~ Elizabeth Newton

Even in the gay spots around town, he could walk in and suddenly realize he was the only person of color in the room. He faced questions in all the eyes he greeted. What’s he doing here? Does he think he’s one of us? How ironic that even here in the nation’s self-proclaimed “gay summer capital” he should feel unwanted, excluded.

~ H.l. Sudler

There is nothing so sexy as a good-looking man in a good-looking pair of shorts.

~ H.l. Sudler

He could not have faced her right then. He had started to sense their relationship was over, that she wanted more than he could ever give her. They hardly saw each other any longer, had nothing much to discuss, and had even ceased doing the one thing they were good at. Still, to smell the sheets where she had lain brought him a certain peace, lulling him to sleep under the veil of her perfume. He dreamed they were married, running beneath a flurry of white rose petals, and then a door slammed shut, and suddenly he was awake. He was back at Cedar House, and it was night and the room was dark.

~ H.l. Sudler

Knowing too much had turned him into something else, and he wasn't sure he liked this newer him, although he felt he could not stop being this other him, darker.

~ H.l. Sudler

You have chosen the path of darkness.

~ Mary Grand

Do not mess with this man's threads!

~ Graeme Simsion

You can thank Henry Ford for that. He was a warlock, you know.

~ Ian Richards

Warren was nearly hoarse as he wiped the tears from his eyes and face. I need to change. I need to protect my family. I need to earn who I am.

~ H.l. Sudler

Maybe that was the best part. The beautiful peace that came with living her own story, knowing every turn of the page and tug of the heart was a new beginning.

~ Melissa Tagg

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

~ John Green

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

~ John Green

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness who's kinda bossy, then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.

~ John Green

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

~ Elin Hilderbrand

I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.

~ John Green

Funny how much we all suffer trying to spare others a bit of pain.

~ Michael Larocca

Once I was King of the Titans. Now I need a MedicAlert bracelet and a subscription to the Safe Return program. Can you put out a Silver Alert on a god? I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.

~ Michael Larocca

I have a question for you. When you were a little boy, is this the man you dreamed of becoming?

~ Michael Larocca

Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort.

~ H.c. Deboard

I've learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.

~ H.c. Deboard

Schopenhauer wrote that to desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. He was correct.

~ Michael Larocca

I’ve been working on something that merges rap with classical…. I call it Baby’s Got Bach.

~ Michael Larocca

I agree with Kilgore Trout about realistic novels and their accumulations of nit-picking details. In Trout’s novel, The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank, the hero is on a space ship two hundred miles long and sixty-two miles in diameter. He gets a realistic novel out of the branch library in his neighborhood. He reads about sixty pages of it, and then he takes it back. The librarian asks him why he doesn’t like it, and he says to her, “I already know about human beings.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.

~ Michael Larocca

When I label something as fiction, people say it’s true, and when I label something as non-fiction, people say it is made up. If something is not 100% true, then I label it as fiction. After all, there is no half of a lie, is there?

~ Robert Black

She forgot: it was as simple as that. She just loved being with the guy. Possibly enough that not even their own wedding could screw it up.

~ Tim Farrington

Of all God’s creatures, only man kills with malice. Only man kills out of vengeance.

~ R.h.dickinson

I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction “from the woman’s point of view.” To such demands, one can only say “Go away and don’t be silly. You might as well ask what is the female angle on an equilateral triangle.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.

~ Luna Demasi

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

~ W.j. Raymond

Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well as engaging their minds.

~ Ian Leslie

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

~ Kathryn Joyce

A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are correct. For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

~ Orson Scott Card

Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't.

~ Neil Gaiman