3,834 Quotes About Fiction

Is it unethical to lie writing obits? All those accomplishments and stellar qualities, were they fudged like dating profiles and resumes?(said by Henry Davis, protagonist of "Stoner Ghosts of Santa Monica")

Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.

Karena jika mengendapkannya, itu sama saja dia masih meletakkan gadis itu di dalam hatinya, di dalam memorinya. Dia masih akan mengingat wajah gadis itu, dan hal seperti ini bukan hal yang bagus untuk kehidupannya nanti.

Bagaimana bisa kau tidak menyukai hujan?Padahal hujan selalu mendekatkan kita.Oh, aku lupa. Kau mungkin tidak menganggapku sepenting itu.Aku bukan pemeran utama dalam lakon hidupmu.Aku hanya figuran yang hanya sesekali dibutuhkan.

The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book.

I choose fantasy to vent, to process complex political, sexual and social politics at the safe distance of fiction.

How ironic it is to have your past-self staring at you

I was born this way and I'm going to die this way, so teach me to work around it.

Când măsura versurilor albe Este egală Și lacrimile nu-și găsesc sentimente caldeÎn schimbarea punctuală, Când distanța dintre două puncte moartePare vieȘi diamantele se sparg ca florile de gheață de pe geam Când iarna vine Dragostea e izometrie.