3,834 Quotes About Fiction

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

You belong to all of us, and we belong to you.

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'causeOur art's official and only partially artificialAnd our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere's not where it settlesBecause it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettleAnd now we face it, this creation we made toTo save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it'sOur safeway they make into a pathetic revelationIn our steampunk nationOur steampunk nation

The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful - more than I can possibly say - that I was given this time with you all

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.

Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.