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Mr Martinek turned back to Jana. 'Thirty-eight per cent alcohol, sixty-two per cent fire - all the way from Karlovy Vary. — F.C. Malby

The moment weighs down on me, threatening to unstitch my seams and expose me to the world. — Rebecca Berto

You make such beautiful poetry out of what you call your love and your unhappiness. Marriage would be such a dull affair in comparison. — Orna Ross

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis

If loving the written word is wrong ... I don't want to be right! — Junnita Jackson

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. — Dennis Lehane

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. — Catherine Jinks

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

Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story. — Sandy Vaile

Women come more easily to that wisdom which ancient peoples, and all wild peoples even now, think the only wisdom. — Orna Ross

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative. — Vikram Chandra

In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world. — Orna Ross

Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily. — Martin Hopkins

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. — Eleanor Catton

Were the stars against him? A woman's fingers are quicker in the sky and shine more brightly. — Graham Spaid

Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak. — D. Biswas

I believe a family just isn't complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy's nose right around the time they divorced. — Cole Alpaugh

Still speaking over me,' she says, meeting my eyes and scoffing. 'You are still that worthless little girl. — Rebecca Berto

He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics. — David Louden

We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow. — Margot McCuaig

I don't like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed. — David Louden

I believe in moderation. But I wouldn't overdo it. — Joseph Ferguson

This job is so...so...I can't even begin to describe it."

Try living it on a daily basis. — Virginia Aird

She thought of his boat silhouetted against the horizon and the image of him hurrying toward her through the fog. — Abigail Easton

If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota) — Johannes Gouws

I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father. — David Louden

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. — Diane Setterfield

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

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
-Alicia Barnhart — Lysious

Write from Beyond what you know. From the authority of your senses. -author of Meditations in Green — Steven Wright

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon. — Martin Hopkins

Needs are stronger than liking. — Ravindra Shukla

As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising. — F.C. Malby

The Professor is coming... — M.K. Hopkins

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter

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

Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity! — Thomas K. Matthews

What happens when I click this-- will Facebook know about it? — Michael Filimowicz

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop - there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God. — Christina Westover

We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words. — Orna Ross

When life disappoints, one must apply one's will, not crumple. — Orna Ross

Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne — Orna Ross

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind. — Susan Sontag

I guess if you get too close, the twinkling stops; they don't look like stars anymore. — Graham Spaid

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

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

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication. — Karen Russell

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

A Quote from Monty's journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand. — J.D. Winston

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell

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

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. — Khaled Hosseini

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! — Terry Pratchett

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast. — Lauren Oliver

science fiction is literary fiction with the lid blown off — Robin Winter

The world is full of sluts on skates. From Penn-warren's "All the Kings Men. — Martha Miller

Once you break someone's heart, you are forever its master. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

The Lord giveth and the world taketh away. — Maryann Austin

What do writers look like? — Graham Spaid

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. — Janet Goodfriend

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary. — Sara Sheridan

War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician. — Orna Ross

He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well. — Orna Ross

Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment. — Orna Ross

Taking a deep breath, I head back to Gatsby's to find Joy. — Andrew J. Keir

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

One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies — Kanza Javed

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

Marriage, after all, is only a little detail in life. — Orna Ross

Not having any drink about ain't the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body's perspective. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe. — Dave Morris

Stallions," Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA — Veronica Randolph Batterson

Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe. — F.C. Malby

He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to be fed. — F.C. Malby

The world is indeed a cold, hard stone. — Graham Spaid

Ava glanced over at Napoleon, who was walking back toward them. She smirked at Juliet and said, "Sweetie, you are *not* the one. — Jay Fingers

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. — Ben Lerner

Sometimes you can't wait for the rest of your life to come to you. You have to go to it. Or at least meet it half way. — Gerry Pirani

To be a great writer you must be fearless with your words. — Karmel Graham

Can you imagine how many people got laid in here? Abby said, walking to the other side of the Jacuzzi. — J.C. Joranco

I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please. — Gabrielle Zevin

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. — A.E. Samaan

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. — Theodore Sturgeon

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

If you don't read my book, I'm not coming to your birthday party. — Tim Yeager

Sometimes, when we cannot attain the freedom we are fighting for, we free ourselves b carving a new path to freedom. — Christina Westover

Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Cyrus is the meat and potatoes of my life, but Prudence was a cupcake I could enjoy just for the sheer sweetness of being with her. — Bette Lee Crosby

He has had her today but he has not had her. No man ever shall. — Orna Ross

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials — Jean Rhys

A nose is ordinarily naked. A nose isn't
nipple, although there are similarities. — Graham Spaid

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

Time may be a river, but memory is a meteor shower, a staccato beat of energetic impacts. — James J. Houts

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze. — Paul Bowles

It is inner duty, not outer achievement, that wins peace. — Orna Ross

How ridiculous were the attentions the weak paid one another in the shadow of the strong! — V.S. Naipaul