440 Quotes About Fiction-novel

He has come to lead me to that elusive place where promises take us and dreams carry us further.

Private Eye continued to report that the stench in the Houses of Parliament was just as strong as it had been on the day when the birds flew away and the rodents fled.

She was a girl stuck between two worlds; the modern world that she had read about and had seen on YouTube, or in the movie CD's, and the old world, of her ancestors that her family had kept alive through their folklore conversations and their traditional celebrations.

My life was a beanstalk and I was Jack, and the foliage was shooting up and up, abundant, impressive, at such speed that I could barely cling on.

I keep being told that my writing is getting better and better. - Now, at first I am thrilled by that, but then I think, Isn't everybody's? Do some authors grow cozy with their own style, and stay there?I think of writing fiction as an art form. As such, it's a constant exploration of new and developing ideas. If any of my books were much like my others, I don't think I'd even bother to write them.

Of what I know of life, in any moment, you run three vital risks-the risk of being yourself, the risk of not being yourself and the riskitself. I would stress most on the third kind. It is the game itself that draws its modest players inward. The “risk” to hide out in a world where masks are normative, the “risk” to play the oppressor, the“risk” to risk your truth one more day in life, the “risk” to not risk your lie.

To be loved, is to be immortal.

The basis of the gothic are secrets that are kept combined with appearances that deceive.

Men will continue to suffer from their own connivance, until they recognise and act upon the truth within themselves.