Ya Fiction Quotes

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

My fan fiction is canon.

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Conceited little mega-puppy.

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Writing a novel is agony.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

I am self-educated from genre books.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

No matter where she went, God was her family. He was her hope.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

Vampires are people too!

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet.--Rachel Morgan

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

An eye for an eye my friend.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

There are some things you never say good-bye to

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

The king was pregnant.

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.