#fiction

I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #dreams

Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies...” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile. ↗

— Cameo Renae

#supernatural #thriller #young-adult-fiction #dreams

she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#short-story #dreams

Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in! ↗

— George H.W. Bush

#dreams

Calvino remembered he had no food in the house and would have to go shopping on Sukhumvit Road. Then he planned to crawl into his bed and sleep, the kind of deep sleep without dreams or hopes, a sleep without regrets, without knowing or thinking how things got the way they are or how occasional fragments of decency escaped the forces of gravity. ↗

— Christopher G. Moore - Zero Hour in Phnom Penh

#noir-fiction #dreams

Gray, the colour of forgetting. ↗

— Daniel Arenson

#dreams

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself. ↗

— John le Carré

#the-art-of-fiction-no- #art

Thus the value of great fiction, we begin to suspect, is not just that it entertains us or distracts us from our troubles, not just that it broadens our knowledge of people and places, but also that it helps us to know what we believe, reinforces those qualities that are noblest in us, leads us to feel uneasy about our faults and limitations. ↗

— John Gardner The Art of Fiction

#art

It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention. ↗

— Ted Dekker

#christian-fiction #creative-process #rapture-ready #writing #art

The highly spirited girl stood up to face her challengers & smiled.She had learnt from the age of thirteen, that what men wanted from young naked girls, was sex. And although the crafty Typhon had stipulated that she would be evaluated in five different areas, & the sixth, in accordance to his mood, all six only spelled sex differently.[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#age