Fiction Quotes

It took me several minutes to persuade myself to watch the news. During which time I gave myself a stern talking to. That turned into me considering a local pub that would be the perfect place to drown my sorrows in a barrel of tequila, though after much introspection, I scratched the idea just to avoid needless drunken embarrassment. Then, admittedly, I contemplated pouncing Andrew for another steamy romp session. Despite its proven potency to assuage stress and tension, I decided now was not the time to indulge in explosive sexcapades.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Firen didn’t waste any time setting up the meeting with Egnatious. The following day she was in such a rush to tell me about it that she burst into my room without knocking and found Andrew and me in an intimate and compromising position reminiscent of the game Twister. Also, I cannot confirm or deny if there was food involved. Let’s just say I toppled over in embarrassment, taking Andrew down with me in a great heap. Firen didn’t fare any better, as she nearly knocked herself out when she ran into the doorframe in an attempt to escape. We were both scarred for life, especially after Firen apologized for walking in on our “naked fun time,” which was apparently what Joseph called it. There were some things people should never know, and that was one of them.

~ Laura Kreitzer

I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste,” I said.

~ Laura Kreitzer

We need the Fallen Legion,” I said without preamble, trying to catch my breath after running after her.“And I need an evil-proof bubble to put Jules in,” Firen said dryly.“That’ll teach me to start off a conversation with a demand,” I grumbled.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

~ Atul Purohit

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living in me and now I enjoy ever bit of my life and hope best for rest...something beyond lovelines from Love Vs Destiny...

~ Atul Purohit

You remember?' he said incredulously. 'What could you possibly remember?' he asked, staring at her, waiting for the answer.The beauty from within her soul shined brightly through her loving eyes as she looked deep into Noah’s now melting eyes.'I remember — I love you,' she said in a soft voice, nervously biting her lip.

~ Sebastian Cole

Ranerio wrapped his hand around mine, guiding my fingers like Lucius had done when he'd shown me the latch behind the dressing-room door mirror. But while the warrior I loved had been offering me an escape route, the pacifist was trying to show me how to fight.

~ Beth Fantaskey

What are we, Charlie's Angels?

~ Terri Blackstock

Have a smile on your face for everyone you meet, and a plan to kill them.

~ Brad Thor

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Let Your Inhibitions Run Free

~ Cindy Smith-Jordan

Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.

~ Dorothy W. Cosey

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.

~ Wally Lamb

If you decide to war with us, you will fail and suffer an eternity of misery,” he informed, his tone steady and cold. “Is that explicit enough?”“Oh, don’t be so dramatic,” I said cheerfully, getting in touch with my inner smartass.

~ Laura Kreitzer

If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I’m not entirely comfortable with that,” I said, smirking.

~ Laura Kreitzer

It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The Prison Plumb Line to explore all three.

~ Yvonne J. Medley

I remember when I was twenty-five,� he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one shaking, the one twenty years past his prime. You want the seasoned one who has done it so many times he can do it in his sleep though. Same thing with attorneys.

~ Daniel Amory

He lived like a devil and died like a saint

~ Haidji

That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.

~ Terry Pratchett

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

~ A.s. Byatt

Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the same.

~ Tom Gething From Sabotage

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

~ Bernard Malamud

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

~ Mark Twain

Every sport pretends to be literature. . .

~ Alistair Cooke

She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is not a girl's dress. It is solidly on the other side of the line outside of girlhood. It is a dress that says something big in a very quiet way; it is a dress that is talking to Alice right now, a dress that is making her feel possibilities never before considered, the possibility of perfume and pretty and dancing and boys. This dress is who she might be, only more so.

~ Laura Harrington

What’s going on?� Ingrid asked. “Listen, nothing bad today, please.� She pulled a chair out and sat down. Faye stared at her and said the words as quickly as she could. “I’m just going to give it to you straight as I can. Mila is a witch.� Ingrid busted out with a laugh. “I wouldn’t call her that,� she said. “That’s a little harsh, isn’t it?� She poured the juice into her glass and took a drink. “What did the brat do this time?� She set her glass down.

~ Taylor Keys

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

~ John L'heureux

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

~ Ann Leckie

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

~ George R. R. Martin

I love science fiction - always have.

~ Simon Sinek

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

~ Brian Aldiss

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

~ Alfred Bester

I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.

~ Twinkle Khanna

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

~ Justin Cronin

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

~ Edward Albee

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

~ Marquis De Sade

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

~ Mark Twain