3,834 Quotes About Fiction
- Author Kirstie Collins Brote
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It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far away anymore. But how do you cut the apron strings if the strings are virtual?
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- Author Yuval Noah Harari
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The cause of war is fictional, but the suffering is 100 per cent real. This is exactly why we should strive to distinguish fiction from reality.
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- Author James Van Pelt
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Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.
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- Author Megan Shepherd
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Only humans could write such pain and love, could make her swoon one minute and cry the next over something that had never really happened to people who’d never really existed.
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- Author Rachel Skatvold
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A ray of light made a rainbow through the mist. [His] words had given her a small glimmer of hope — the kind of hope she thought had disappeared from her life forever.
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- Author Nathalie Léger
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Flaubert writing to Louise Colet in 1853: Everything we invent is truth, do not doubt it. Poetry is as precise as geometry. The conclusion is as good as its deduction, and, at a certain point, we no longer deceive ourselves in matters of the soul.
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- Author Sunshine Rodgers
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We have no idea what people are dealing with or the hurts and wounds that have been inflicted upon them. Personally, after reading this, I have been challenged to not be so complacent in my prayer life, and to be more intentional about doing battle for the lost and hurting who need me. " - Christian Missionary Laurie Lester
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- Author Bret Easton Ellis
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He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- except of course to Blair, and really not even to her. He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all. But there was no point in being angry with him.
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- Author Alice Hoffman
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...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go.
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