#fiction

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

#characters #exist #fictional #get #head

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#dreams

Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#ya-fiction #funny

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#fiction #experience

No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#mystery #romance #death

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#fiction #i #myself #never #really

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner. ↗

— Sharon Sant

#fantasy #science-fiction #young-adult #death

I understand, gentlemen,” John Kennedy said. “If you find that life it’s not easy, let me tell you, death is worse. ↗

— Pierre Marshesso

#thriller #death

The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma—the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #gun-violence #love #meg-kavanagh

Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there. Shouldn't the place be crimson with blood and black with shame? ↗

— Sarah Sundin

#romance #world-war-ii #change