Top Fiction Quotes

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

Fiction Definition

(n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

(n.) That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.

(n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.

(n.) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

(n.) Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

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

It should be said that my parents had married for love. The affection and devotion they had shared was the rarest of indulgences, perhaps especially in those days. For them, it had been love at first...

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.

Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him.I'm glad we're going steady, he whispered.So am I.

Writing is the Art, re-writing the craft.

I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in 's of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now...

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works...

..now, seated hunched over paper in a pool of Anglepoised light, I no longer want to be anything except what who I am. Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, o...

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't refl...

To understand what's happening in the U.S. presidential election of 2016, you need to know what's going on in the year 2024! Soundscape: Where hearing is believing.

Sex was the main component of her thoughts now. But love - and her desperate longing for it - had vanished from her heart like a migraine after a painkiller.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

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 oppo...

The formula for this brand of historical writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can b...

You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.

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

Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.