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The difference between an achiever and a loser is,
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets. — Akash Lakhotia

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic. — Elliott Colla

Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more. — Anthea Syrokou

I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature. — Sam Weller

Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing. — Petra March

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. — Vanessa M Chattman

We would learn as much as we could, be as honourable as we could, be as courageous as we could, and be as happy as we could. — S.L. Mills

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none. — Tucker Max

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. — Fay Weldon

We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it's who we become that determines what becomes of us. — Melinda West Seifert

Dear family,

I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine — Koh Choon Hwee

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. — Mark Zero

This isn't some LA country rock jam reminiscing on the pyschtotropic pot pansies of Haight Ashbury . This is the soot and smut of London mate ! — Saira Viola

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man's done and you want him to be a hero at the same time! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Let us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President. — Henry James

Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another. — Gerald Weaver

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd

HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED! — Arkady Strugatsky

Henry James hated epilogues and refused to use them in his fiction. He said that life granted us no "epilogues", so why should art or literature? — Dan Simmons

I get that. For you, it's more than following a bunch of rules - no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night and twice on Sunday. — Laura Anderson Kurk

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. — Katharine Kerr

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. — David Brin

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat. — Adrian McKinty

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. — Gabrielle Zevin

I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this. — Salvador Plascencia

I want you forever. I will always be with you. I will always love you. I will love, honor, and cherish you for all eternity. — Katrina D. Miller

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned. — Mark Zero

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature. — Mal Peet

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day. — Mark Zero

People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing. — Kanza Javed

I'm sure you can manage from here, and without a further word, he walked out of her room, then let himself out of her flat. — M.F. Roberts

And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure. — Kanza Javed

I'm the muhfucka that did this to you! If y'all don't know me, you better get to know me, or fuck around and wind up wit' a hole in your forehead. — Brooklyn June

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it. — Tom Shippey

I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. — E. M. Forster

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon

All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed. — Marty Rubin

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them. — Flannery O'Connor

Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular. — Nora Roberts

Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds"

~Vianka Van Bokkem — Vianka Van Bokkem

They wanted her. They all loved her. And they wanted to keep her. — Hanna Lui

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov

I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between. — Marc Royston

I read anything I saw lying around. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same rough treatment. — Ian McEwan

Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact. — F Scott Fitzgerald