#fiction

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. ↗

— Stephen King

#inside #lie #truth

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#individuality #science-fiction #art

You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #novel #paranormal #romance #humor

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#novelist #science-fiction #humor

You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window." "Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it." "Twice." "Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#humor #paranormal #romance #vampires #humor

Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#blood

You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. No one had ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me, I guess. Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too. ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#dark #poetic-fiction #beauty

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#any #because #fiction #i #i do

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#black #fact #facts #fiction #fictional

You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one. ↗

— S.B. Redd

#female-stalkers #fiction #intentions #relationships #romance