Ya Fiction Quotes

I am taken to the police station and they place me in an interrogation room. I am there for about thirty minutes before someone walks in.

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore.

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

If I kiss you now, I won't be able to stop.

My new story collection won’t please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they did, I’d have to move out and find another world to write about.

Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.

That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.

Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can’t I received the same feeling in return?”-Ariel

That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.

She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!”-Arista

Father, what are you to do now?”Triton’s sneer grew scarier. “She broke the law.” turning away from the terrified faces of his daughters. “She must die.

And why is it all men thinkeverything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain sillydrivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of findingthe perfect love?

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold." (Humans)

Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

While the stories are fiction, the journey is real.

Live in your dreams, not your past.

It's your destiny to be here, Dana.""Oh really. How nice. Is it Brandon's destiny to be here too?""Yep.

The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction. There is no section in between.

Just because someone is on your path, it doesn't mean that they're on your journey.

If you have no idea what I’m about to do, just watch and wait..then you’ll see time spin to a stop right before your eyes..and you’ll forget that world you once knew

Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait for your turn, wait for your time.

Tonight let's slay some dragons.

Max is short for General Maximus Decimus Meridius.

Brandon tilted his head back and closed his eyes. Unbelievable. He had his name. God had given it. Just like Reece said he would.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.

I loved the feeling of finally falling in love to someone who would love me back.

Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind, same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from battles between jolly green giants.

He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of what a fine art it was--if you couldn't run a machine. A duel was under way.

Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras, doesn't know what life on ethereal astral plane is like.

Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.

I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love too much.

To get here had been painful, but for once in my life I felt free.

It was as though everything that mattered was encapsulated in that last moment of my blissful state of oblivion.