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Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery. ↗


— Joyce Carol Oates


#on-fiction #writing #life

Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often. ↗


— Nora Roberts


#happily-ever-after #life

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. ↗


— Isaac Babel


#narrative #on-fiction #reality #story #life

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life ↗


— Martin Amis


#literature #on-fiction #life

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. ↗


— Dave Eggers


#book #every #every time #get #i

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken. ↗


— Susan Vaught


#fiction #life-lesson #life

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps. ↗


— Andrew Vachss


#crime-fiction #neo-noir #life

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere. [Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007] ↗


— Cormac McCarthy


#fiction #goals #guidance #novels #perfection

That wasn't love; that was stupidity. ↗


— Sherrilyn Kenyon


#fact #fictional #life #truth #life

The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families, and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny. ↗


— Octavia E. Butler


#science-fiction #education






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