#fiction

Oh, God … you’re so beautiful,” I said in a weak voice, my head enchanted. He smiled at me and turned to the thin, elderly lady next to him whose skin seamed with wrinkles.“She must still have a fever,” Victor said, fighting a smile, which just made him even more breathtaking. ↗

— A.B.Whelan

#science-fiction-romance #young-adult-fantasy #young-adult-fiction #beauty

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#continuous #fiction #form #i #newspapers

But love is this really powerful thing that everyone's got if they'd just learn how to accept it. I mean, come on. If it's something we all have to give, and if it's something we all want, doesn't that mean there's exactly enough to go around? ↗

— Philip Beard

#realistic-fiction #young-adult #death

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

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles. ↗

— Robert Stikmanz

#humor #science-fiction #death

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. ↗

— David Brin

#best #change #deal #does #explore

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again. ↗

— Chester Brown

#because #despite #doing #done #enjoyed

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#fiction #grim #i #kind #kindred

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#before #began #fiction #i #reading

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#benefit #community #every #fiction #good