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Long Fiction Quotes & Sayings

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The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. — Sheri S. Tepper

We each have our lives ... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them. — Kevin J. Anderson

It don't take long to stay all night here! — Charles Dahnmon Whitt

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time. — Terry Pratchett

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination. — Lauren DeStefano

You can only chase a butterfly for so long. — Jane Yolen

Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please. — Nancy B. Brewer

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. — Buddy Ebsen

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 tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation. — Aleksandar Hemon

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived. — Agatha Christie

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure. — Storm Jameson

I jolt up, a scream lodged in my throat. Drops of sweat roll down my forehead and my throat hurts as if I've been screaming for a long time. — Ashley Earley

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. — Vinton Cerf

How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'. — Henry V. O'Neil

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner. — Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically. — George Saunders

The simplicity of youth is mesmerizing to me. Maybe because I didn't know it long enough."
London Drake
"They All fall down — Nick Moccia

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. — Chad Harbach

I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real — Michael Connelly

Most of them don't mind too much the idea of a God existing somewhere, just so long as He's indulgent. — Geoffrey Wood

In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long. — Victor LaValle

I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure. — Tananarive Due

She had long ago learned not to refuse when God brought a need to her attention. — Robin Lee Hatcher

She would keep playing the role as long as the audience fell for it — Mary Papas

Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat. — Sarah Sundin

My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible. — Thomas Sweeney

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. — Ellen Potter

Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space. — Kim Harrison

Novels are just very, very, very long lies. That is to say, you've got to get your story straight! — Blair Thornburgh

Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night. — Peter Straub

Then it doesn't matter which way you walk ... -so long as I get somewhere. — Lewis Carroll

Too long, much too long. — Jessica Verday

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. — Taiye Selasi

Humph! A text message that said, 'What's up, sexy?' You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the bedroom - — N. Wood Lane

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it. — Margaret McMullan

Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes. — Sanjo Jendayi

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. — Paul Di Filippo

Looks like my superpowers don't come with automatic manicures, thank heaven. I hate long nails. — Jennifer Silverwood

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.
Egwene al'Vere — Brandon Sanderson

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

My heart was divided for so long. Now I'm able to give you every part of me. You deserve nothing less. — Faith Sullivan

It could be a work of fiction, or history, or both - a long book exploding out of this central place in a hundred directions. — Stephen King

Well, they've come a long way. To think that he now could access a secret document held in the Vatican archives, via electronic technology. — Peter J. Tanous

Like I've told you before, Beverly, I don't care where we live as long as we're together." Vance ... "The Elder Effect — D.L. Given

I long for the day I no longer long for him. — Franki Fiori

One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings — Timothy Zahn

Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically! — Asse Sauga

I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long. — Erica Sehyun Song

He was one of the few men who didn't aspire to be alpha as long as he was in on the hunt. — B.V. Lawson

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten. — Andrew Bacevich

A truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought — Tami Hoag

Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune with my own. — Hunter S. Jones

The king is dead. Long live the queen. — Marie Lu

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time. — Sue Monk Kidd

Specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form. — Nathan Lowell

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

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time. — William Hurt

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate. — Patricia Cornwell

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place. — Billy Graham

It'd been a long time since they'd been together, but as close as they were physically, they'd never been so far apart in every other way. — Jennifer Faye

The corridor didn't seem long enough to contain so much blackness.

'Passing Through Peacehaven — Ramsey Campbell

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship. - John Hanlon, the sailor — Deana J. Driver

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.

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

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect. — Seth Grahame-Smith

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics. — John Grisham

Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long. — Lucy Christopher