#fiction

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#i #interpret #invitations #my own #own

I didn’t want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face I’d found so attractive at the airport. But you were there all right: the blue eyes, blondish hair, and tiny scar. Only you didn’t look beautiful this time. Just evil. ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#dark #poetic-fiction #beauty

I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song. You see, I do not write for glory or to get anything for free. I just sit down and I write, because it makes so much sense to me. ↗

— Terri F. Williams

#family-issues #fiction #trust-and-revenge #family

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. ↗

— Anita Diament

#explaining #fiction #got #historical #historical fiction

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#cycle #deconstruct #fiction #i #part

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#fiction #longer #narrative #nonfiction #only

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beautiful #choice #destiny #fate #fiction

Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fiction #germans #holocaust #nazis #signs-and-symbols

Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone wants to hear. How you can affect a person's entire say with just a few measly sentences? ↗

— J. Sterling

#young-adult-fiction #beauty

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion... ↗

— J.D. Robb

#fear #science-fiction-romance #death