353 Quotes About Literary-fiction

Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.

What a thraldom, to be able to dream and only then to be free!

One can only hear the chirping of birds, the quacking of ducks, and the echoes of one's mind.

Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn

Surely, there's strength in being dressed for a storm, even when there's no storm in sight?

I had a dream. In the dream someone was critical of my newest novel The Snail's Castle. I said, "don't worry about it. If you don't like it, just throw it out the window." I awoke, grinning, with a wonderful feeling of freedom.

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.

In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent.