#fictional

I don't know who he was," Kavita flat-out states, "but whoever he was he sure did a number on you, didn't he?" Mary leans forward to ensure he would see her deviant stare. "Did it ever occur to you that maybe I did a number on him?" Kavita leans in closer as well, and with that same deviant expression, "Yes. I have. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#fiction-novel #fictional #love #lovers-love-story #romance

Mary approaches her before she is able to reach her station. "Hello Lily. Get anything special for Christmas?" "Just the usual." She answers. "Shattered dreams. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#fiction-novel #fictional #love #lovers #lovers-love-story

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#creative #each #fictional #i #irritant

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#agree #analyses #believing #cannot #competing

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. ↗

— David Guterson

#fictional #finally #find #fits #history

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#explains #fictional #itself #unlike

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#fictional #firmly #i #i do #like

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#culture #fictional #i #i love #love

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#both #curse #everything #fictional #find

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#decisions #fictional #five #i #i think