Ya Fiction Quotes
I am the Captain of my own life.
Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.
I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.
… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.
The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.
He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.
Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist.
I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.
she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.
there is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they'll get there.
Have you noticed how Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen look nothing alike, and yet they both manage to look exactly like their father, Martin?
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.
Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be
My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.
There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.
Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.
Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.
A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully.
(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.
Although when there were too many people around- which there certainly were today- it was hard even to remember to say thank you: all those people were like drowning.
(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.
Y'know when your dog drags its butt across the carpet leaving a stain- It's not as easy as it looks..."
The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.
His allure, as he stood there, his face, even with the red swollen eyes, everything about him was gorgeous.
Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.
We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?
I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.
I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.
Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.
One wrong social move---say---like hanging with the wrong person, ” she said nastily, “Can make your life around here a living nightmare and I definitely don’t think that you want that.
Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.
It is said that there is never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart. The shroud that covers this free spirit is woven by the complex threads of society.
The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.
Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly altering the place where they were set.
As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the writing interesting and considered novel.
Charlotte made a promise to herself then and there: If I ever see someone fall, I'll ask if they're okay.
I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.
Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory.