Fiction Quotes - Page 14

Evangeline," he sighed. "It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it?

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

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.

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.

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

If you have a big heart, you will live a large life.

You look good, Clearwater. Been working out?' Danie teased.

'He does, doesn't he?'Janelle agreed. 'This will totally work.'

James' eyes darted back and forth between the girls, his head spinning. 'Wait, what will work?

A small white rabbit with floppy ears and a twitching pink nose bounded out from the thick forest brush. Fingers twitching at his side, James stepped toward the small animal, a nervous giddiness creeping up inside of him.

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

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

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

Easy. Peasy

Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Every fiction has its base in fact.