Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2012 December

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own...

Varley O'Connor

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

This is the fiction that I’m referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

One woman is a tiny divine spark in a timeless sisterhood tapestry collective; All of us are Wild Women.

Soul Skin, spiritual fiction by; Jan Porter: a spirited shaman's journey

As we come into balance within ourselves and the all that is, we balance the past, future and our Earth.

Soul Skin, spiritual fiction by; Jan Porter: a spirited shaman's journey

Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world.

The Spice of Life

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

The Moment Under the Moment: Stories, a Libretto, Essays, and Sketches

A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.

Liver: A Fictional Organ With a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral.

Masters of Time: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Time Travel Anthology

But nothing compared to the reality of the magnificent Light Storm of 2015, nothing, that is, except the almond shaped emerald eyes of his passenger.

Masters of Time: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Time Travel Anthology