#fiction

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart ↗

— Norman Mailer

#historical

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#historical

How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me ↗

— Ruta Sepetys

#romance #historical

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#on-fiction #stories #truth #writing #fiction

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#on-fiction #fiction

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what. ↗

— John Green

#alaska-young #fiction #looking-for-alaska #miles #fiction

Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!" "I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#fiction

I’m not sure sex qualifies as R and R, but it’s a compromise I can live with. ↗

— Shelby Morgen

#erotica #erotica-romance #sci-fi #science-fiction #science

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#fiction #politics #politicians

Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent, knobby collarbone. He looked…complicated and hungry. She’d captured him focused intensely on a book, his face pressed against a wall like he was resting. Or waiting. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#artist #breakups #college #creativity #dating