3,834 Quotes About Fiction

There’s nothing to be scared of, right Akhol?”He said nothing as he stepped toward the rushing water that rolled around a big rock and was swallowed whole by impenetrable darkness.“Right?” Andrew repeated, his voice swallowed by the sound of rushing water.Akhol didn’t respond again. He tapped a foot above the water before he stepped in and disappeared beneath the surface in one fluid motion.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

You couldn't wake someone when his own dreams turned out better than reality.

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer