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Couldn't help it, he insisted. My dad would bell me to draw a flower and it would turn into a Venus flytrap chewing on a hand. — Judy Budnitz

Memories tell me who I was, not who I'll become. They don't fix the present any more than they fix the past. — Caroline George

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. — Jean Baudrillard

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.' — Chris Carter

In Actual
Human Rights are
"caring" for Humans left on the planet — Haider Ali

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting. — Mark Zero

Her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tell us who we are and what we think and what we do. A — Elizabeth Strout

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts. — John Green

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY Prolific American author of science fiction and fantasy — Jack Canfield

Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering) — Deborah L. McCarragher

You're too much of a bitch to go gently into that good night."
"You should put that on a greeting card. — SE Zbasnik

Tom Farrell had always wished Hell on his boss. On New Years Eve ... Hell sent someone.
-Along For The Ride- — Thomas Amo

I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen. — Faith Sullivan

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

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life's cruel trick. — Natalia Jaster

Cale! Have you had a female in here?"

Calic laughed carelessly. "Depends on when you're referring to. — Kiersten Fay

We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface. — Kellie Thacker

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves. — Don Hertzfeldt

There is no good or evil here, it all depends on what side you're standing. Nor is it about wrong or right, it's about surviving." Triven — Jennifer Wilson

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury — T.K. Thorne

Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn't kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth. — V.S. Kemanis

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. — Gene Roddenberry

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

Try living it on a daily basis. — Virginia Aird

Although unavailable for analysis the moment it happens, being struck a violent blow on the head is a very interesting experience. — Michael Cisco

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

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England — Lauren Willig

The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on mortality. — Michael Chabon

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire ... — Cordwainer Smith

I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results. — Kia Carrington-Russell

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life — Martin Amis

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do. — Eveli Acosta

Haydn's instructions are imprinted on my brain much the same way Logan's face is imprinted on my heart. — Siobhan Davis

At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too. — Melina Marchetta

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction. — Beau Willimon

Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck. — Kim Harrison

I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world. — Kay Kenyon

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist. — Sharon Sant

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. — Todd Strasser

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it. — Ivan Reitman

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. — Luke Taylor

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction. — Salman Rushdie

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality. — Lance Reddick

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

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. — Mark Twain

All the on-lookers were bewildered.The lovely slave girl, Briseis, had won the Battle of the Sexes with a kiss.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong

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

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. — Dan Simmons

I have trust issues."
"I know. I'm on a mission to cure you of that. — Simone Elkeles

On this ship, my word is fucking law! Captain Josiah Trenchard. UWSS Might of Fortitude. — Jonathon Fletcher

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. — Daniel Keyes

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind. — Carla H. Krueger

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere. — Jasper Fforde

Don't think I won't know if you're lying, I know how many bases you've been on, you red headed puritan. I will be able to tell fact from fiction. — Quinn Loftis

Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard. — Genie Frisbee

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism ... — Hunter S. Thompson

All I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies. — Rebecca Makkai

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don't fall. — Henry Mosquera

A text pops up on the screen. It's from Luis. I can't help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out message.
Luis: Hey — Simone Elkeles

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

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

You put cow dung on my face?' 'Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear? — Renita D'Silva

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. — Stephen King

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. — Thomas A. Edison

My life was a beanstalk and I was Jack, and the foliage was shooting up and up, abundant, impressive, at such speed that I could barely cling on. — Jessie Burton

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. — Mayim Bialik

Oh, boy! A bone! I love bones. I take it over to gnaw on in front of the cube door. This is the best place to see the entire yard. — Lea Kirk

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt. — Steven B. Weissman

We all have that certain Gage at some point in our lives. — Melissa M. Futrell

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. — James Joyce

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching. — Zoe Saldana

Man, sometimes it really sucks being the only sane one on this ship. - Duv Jackson, Gunship — J.J. Snow

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. — Joss Whedon

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. — Tim Roth

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) — Beth Fine

There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished. — C.J. Anderson

When we see the brain we realize that we are, at one level, no more than meat; and, on another, no more than fiction. — Paul Broks

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. — Albert Camus

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. — Lauren Oliver

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card

When my stomach grumbled, I filled up on hamburgers, hot dogs, gyros, tacos, jerk chicken, pizza, and a side salad because I was watching my figure — Y.A. Marks

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. — Benjamin Disraeli

I discovered something attractive about uncertainty. It was the knowledge that God was in control and that I was depending on him every moment. — Yilda B. Rivera

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did. — Elin Hilderbrand

15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum — Robert Louis Stevenson

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people. — Paul Park

The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head. — Henry Mosquera

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point. — Peter David

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

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

When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction. — Dennis R. Miller

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America. — Morgan Spurlock

With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore. — Hunter S. Jones

You're not beautiful," he said. "Your profile said beautiful. You kind of overreached on that one. — Diane Dunning

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils. — Rick Barnett