#fiction

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beautiful #choice #destiny #fate #fiction

Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fiction #germans #holocaust #nazis #signs-and-symbols

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#fiction #i #learned #me #parts

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#funny

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#brain #candy #entertain #fiction #god

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#fiction #find #historical #historical fiction #i

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#doing #enjoy #i #nonfiction #really

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it. ↗

— David Frum

#happened #i #i can #journalism #only

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fiction #i #more #much #out

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#american people #become #fact #fairness #fiction