Ya Fiction Quotes

Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory.

Conformity runs rampant through everyday life, and people want to read about characters that deviate from societal norms.

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.

Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...

You ever play that game seven minutes in heaven, baby? Because we're about to play it.

I really don't know how he does it. How he can take any situation and seduce its pants off. It's a talent really.

Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.

Life is like a game of cards. Everyone throws his card. And, the result depends on all of those cards. Not on a particular card.

Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.

A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.

This is love not business or politics. I love someone. How can I replace her with someone else?

Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.

Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

...something more than the sum of its parts-

To become an effective radiation researcher, you must develop the ability to discern fact from fiction.

The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through books, fictions that are no less part of me than much of my own history.

What you do today is important . We can never get today back.

His real name is A.J., but he is known in Heaven as Armor because of how resilient he is in his faith and how persistent he is with his prayers.

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.

You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.

Emotions tend to entwine Earthlings together.

It is amazing how sharing of one’s intimate details can make human beings forget the formality of a relationship and bring them closer together.

It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things?

My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but its suprising how often they head in your direction

The best love is the one that makes you a better person, without changing you into someone other than yourself

Everyone says you only fall in love once, but that not true, because every time I see you, I fall in love all over again

He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.

Isn't there some truth in all fiction?" "There's some fiction in all truth too.

Remember this one thing baby girl, women don’t juggle…we diversify!

As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.

Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.

Max: Why do I get the feeling you’ve played god and you don’t know what you’ve created.Dr Hurstville: Hasn’t god done the same with us?

You’re not interested in her because by your definition she isn’t real. But your brain doesn’t know the difference. It’s all just chemicals firing and testosterone giving you a hard-on.

But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me.

Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?

He didn't remember ever being less weird than he was right now. In fact, as far as he could tell he had always been more or less exactly as weird as this. if not more so.

If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?

The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?

There's what's smart and what's right." - Molly in the Night Gardener

It's a tough world to find yourself in, but an even tougher one to be yourself in

Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy

Surely if Alternative Facts are untrue they should be called Ficts?

Why hadn't he chosen a different Amish barn to bed down in last nacht? He hated Bethany seeing him like this. Remembering him like this. A homeless wanderer. A stray.

Some sinister secret lat buried in the heart of the graveyard !

Idealistic world views should be our focus.

If you want to be a writer-- stop talking about it! Sit down and write. -Jackie Collins