3,834 Quotes About Fiction

The Witcher had a knife to his throat. He was wallowing in a wooden tub, brimfull with soapsuds, his head thrown agains the slippery rim. The bitter taste of soap lingered in his mouth as the knife, blunt as a doorknob, scraped his Adam's apple painfully and moved towards his chin with a grating sound.

...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

My body is no longer mine. My soul dormant. I am once again, possessed.www.thethreeimmortalblades.com

Maybe if you sleep where another person sleeps and do what that person does, then eventually you’ll start turning into that person.

for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.