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I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning. — Raymond Chandler

Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script. — Johnny Rich

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction. — Javier Cercas

Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end. — Selena Kitt

I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them. — Neil Gaiman

A shrink and a patient switch roles. Who is really the boss? — Mary Papas

I want to do science fiction with dark stories. — Kim Ji-woon

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always. — Sara Sheridan

A three-pint problem — Melvyn Small

Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories — Eileen Granfors

Speculative fiction includes all stories that take place in a setting contrary to known reality. — Orson Scott Card

The most outrageous tale you can tell is somebody's truth. — Marty Rubin

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives. — Patrick Rothfuss

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better — Mary Papas

Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. — Susannah Mansfield

I use Fiction to face Reality And write dark Stories in hope to brighten my Path. — A. Mani

I feel myself collapse inside as if the life force has been sucked out of me. — Siobhan Davis

I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else. — Siobhan Davis

Instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet. — Lauren Slater

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.' — Brian K. Vaughan

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable. — Siobhan Davis

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story. — Katherine Center

I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you. — G.D. Falksen

Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories ... as well as mine. — Megan Duke

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable. — Neetesh Dixit

I am unbelievably nervous.
It is most unlike me.
This girl is really messing with my mojo. — Siobhan Davis

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. — Cory Doctorow

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

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

Stories are better than fiction, so let's hope for some real-life sequels. — Katherine Ramsland

As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story. — Ken Liu

It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep. — Siobhan Davis

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. — Brian W. Aldiss

It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun altogether. — Kiera Cass

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. — Italo Calvino

What child didn't wish to know if his bedtime stories were the stuff of fiction or of truth? — V.E Schwab

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. — Michio Kaku

Fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all. — Hiromu Arakawa

Lost Cactus is simply an urban myth. — John Hopkins

It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth indirectly yetpowerfully. — Wayne Martindale

No one is on this road, she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn't the place to be at three o'clock on a summer afternoon. Everyone but us. — V.S. Kemanis

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now. — John Crowley

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card

Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories. — Lucian Barnes

An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men. — Karen Azinger

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden

If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills. — John Howard Matthews

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. — Diane Setterfield

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights) — Robert Silverberg

While the stories are fiction, the journey is real. — C.J. Peterson

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter. — Nicholas Royle

Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story. — Marty Rubin

Ariana strikes me as the type of girl who is attracted to authenticity. — Siobhan Davis

All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward. — Karen Azinger

The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold. — Stephen Harker

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham

They weren't true stories; they were better than that. — Alice Hoffman

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them ... — William Petersen

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy. — Patrick Rothfuss

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant

The story was heavy in her hands, the book spread open like legs, the letters very small i spite of describing such a big moment — Natalia Jaster

Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went. — April Genevieve Tucholke

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it. — Frederik Pohl

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went. — Lauren Willig

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story. — Amy Engel

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner

All stories are true. But some of them never happened. — James A. Owen

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her. — Mary Papas

God, he was an evil bastard, but boy was he good! — MFR

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin

We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not? — Susan Fletcher

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room. — Gwenn Wright

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something. — Marlon James

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed. — Alice Hoffman

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories. — S.A. Tawks

The sea was my first home ... Now that I had nowhere else to go, this was the last place I felt safe. — Jennifer Silverwood

If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better. — Alexandar Tomov

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her. — Mary Papas

I liked stories. I liked the way they had the power to make sense of life. — Candi Sary

Regardless of religion (or lack thereof), lovers of speculative fiction will swallow up these provocative stories. - Erin O'Riordan, — Tim Lieder

I decided to write the book I wanted to read — David A. Lottes

While I AM sure of what I want, I'm equally unsure of how to attain it. — Siobhan Davis

Stories are Life's instruction manuals. — Robert Peate

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights) — S.J. Rozan

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. — Theodore Sturgeon

The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn't dead yet. I think. — Paul W.S. Bowler

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message. — Karen Thompson Walker

The only man she ever loved. And hated. — Mary Papas

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life. — Mary Papas

I think that's just a story."
"But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true. — Cassandra Clare

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. — H.P. Lovecraft