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I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart. — Francine Rivers

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction. — Jean-Pierre Dardenne

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

It might be late September, but is was hot as the six shades of hell. — Charlaine Harris

We're still looking for the Messiah, so I usually invite myself over to someone's house who's found him. — Dan Salerno

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's. — Brian Joyce

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst. — James Jones

Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I'd even had the opportunity to sin. — Kristen Reed

Well now," the dragon says to her in a voice like rolling thunder, "who are you really here to save? — Patti Larsen

May the gods ignore you. — Lynda Williams

Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world. — Marty Rubin

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch

I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it — Sarah Rees Brennan

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. — Sarah Sundin

She was as lovely sleeping as she was dripping in sensuality at the fundraiser — Kailin Gow

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction. — Will Christopher Baer

For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses. — John Nardizzi

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary. — Sarah Hall

The novel was simple, heartwarming, painful, and lovely, all in perfect doses." -Writer's Digest Review of Emily Nelson's The Locket — Emily Nelson

Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold. — Jason E. Royle

I have been loved said Edward to the stars. — Kate DiCamillo

Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction. — Ron Carlson

Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin. — Lauren Lola

A very important function of intelligence is the ability to premeditate. ~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty? — Isaac Asimov

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible. — Andrew Davidson

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. — Bill Kovach

If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force. — Dawn M. Turner

If you don't know the fantasy life of a country, it's hard to write fiction about it. — Philip Roth

I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy. — Tom Bissell

One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely. — Lev Shestov

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time. — Sara Sheridan

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

I have been to the speed of God, sir ... and I discommend it. — John Ringo

I find it more and more difficult to write fiction, when the truth has become so unbelievable. --DP Vent — D.P. Vent

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King

Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do. — Leif Enger

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives. — David Gemmell

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is. — Jason Jennings

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody. — Brian Joyce

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation. — G.S. Jennsen

Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

Dude, it's mind control. That's got to be the best superpower ever! — Lee Davidson

It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ... — Robert Harris

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. — Iain Banks

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. — Yann Martel

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at. — Christopher Fry

My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin. — Carrie Butler

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. — Roddy Doyle

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. — Reid Scott

He grinned, a very dark and evil grin ... the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas. — Cameo Renae

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers. — Kami Garcia

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. — Mark Twain

And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all. — Jacqueline Koyanagi

I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it. — Graham McNeill

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end. — Brett Armstrong

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it. — Max Barry

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. — John Gay

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. — Gao Xingjian

Brian organised for the body to be flown back. — Jolene Tan

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time. — Romesh Gunesekera

My experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there. — Marion Dane Bauer

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more. — Sara Sheridan

Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets faster and better at chasing you ... — Tiffany FitzHenry

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. — Orson Scott Card

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. — Michael Gruber

Sometimes its the crazy side that accomplishes things! — Christopher J. Fennell

When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say Jesus, it's for you. — Robin Jones Gunn

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon. — Ron Carlson

The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been. — Luo Guanzhong

Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself. — Jaleigh Johnson

What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human. — A.J. Vega

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. — K. Hari Kumar

Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. — Justin Alcala

Gray, the colour of forgetting. — Daniel Arenson

Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries. — Charlie Campbell

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. — Frank Herbert

When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given. — Kayt C. Peck

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine. — Ryan Sean O'Reilly

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway

Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!"
"I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy. — L.J.Smith

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience. — Angelika Rust

The chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do. — John Gardner

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place. — John Dufresne

She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all? — S. Elle Cameron

What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person. — Donna Brown

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

The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins

The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters — R.J. Peters

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life. — Nancy Kress

The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such — Georges Bataille

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

There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an 'idea'. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave. — Leah Broadby