#tin

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#humor #lying #on-fiction #writing #humor

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #on-writing #wit #writing #humor

I sent a quick text to Adrian: I have a hickey! You can’t ever kiss me again. I honestly hadn’t expected him to be awake this early, so I was surprised to get a response: Okay. I won’t kiss you on your neck again. So typical of him. No! You can’t ever kiss me ANYWHERE. You said you were going to keep your distance. I’m trying, he wrote back. But you won’t keep your distance from me. I didn’t dignify that with a response. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#aftermath #freaking-out #hickey #humor #kisses

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#writing #humor

Why?" She asked in a confused whisper. "Out of all the women in the world, why did you choose this mortal?" "Because fate drove me to you. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#fate #love #relationships #love

But...what if I mistime it?" Gilan smiled widely. "Well, in that case, I'll probably lop your head off your shoulders." Horace and Gilan ↗

— John Flanagan

#horace #humor #ranger-s-apprentice #sword-fighting #humor

Speaking the French culture is so much easier on the palate than speaking the language. It makes you sophisticated to talk with your mouth full. ↗

— Bauvard

#french #funny #humor #funny

He’s sitting casually at my kitchen table peeling the skin off an apple with a pocket knife, a red apple that he has quite obviously appropriated from my fruit bowl, might I add. ↗

— L.H. Cosway

#funny #stingy #supernatural #funny

The lawn is the last suburban frontier. It separates us from the corruption of the street and its triker gangs. When drive-by shootings occur, our grass gets a shower instead of our windows getting water-stains. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #gangs #humor #lawns #shootings

Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit... ↗

— Megan S. Johnston

#fiction-writing #first-in-series #new-author #paranormal-romance-series #paranormal-series