#fiction

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. ↗

— George Orwell

#censorship #science-fiction #death

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#ghost #ghost stories #ghosts #more #science

It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#family-saga #gothic-romance #historical-fiction #strong-heroine #suspense

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#fiction #first #first time #historical #historical fiction

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#endeavors #everybody #everybody else #expense #fiction

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#basis #dominates #enter #fiction #fictive

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#chrysalis #degrees #eyes #fact #fiction

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