#fiction

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

There’s always time for arguin’ when you’re a Fuentes. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humour #romance #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #funny

The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful. ↗

— Kathleen McGowan

#fiction #beauty

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #been #direct #doing #even

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

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#american #born #cabin #coincidence #cooper

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

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! ↗

— Erin Duffy

#book #fiction #fun #good #historical

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#because #equal #fiction #good #more