Top Fiction Quotes

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.

Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.

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.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

Perhaps great fiction is in reality, deep hidden truths.

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

And yet it was also true that the tumor could not be removed by our doctor, and as a result of that a strange medication had been given him that enabled my brother to become even more of an enigma tha...

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the...

She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands...

In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each new person...

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or e...

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret. - Claire Harding - Boone Holler

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

Don’t touch me. Don’t tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don’t. Don’t pretend you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every word...

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

One reason why fiction is a human necessity is that it satisfies many unconscious as well as conscious needs. It would be important if it only touched the conscious mind, as expository writing does. B...