Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.
Drew KarpyshynTags: fiction science-fiction star-wars
Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens a novel,. he likes to have a masculine name on the cover; it's reassuring somehow. You never know what might happen to that external genitalia if you immerse yourself in imaginary doings concocted by someone with the goods on the inside.
Siri HustvedtTags: reading men fiction stereotypes men-and-women gender-stereotypes reading-fiction
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
Sharon SalzbergTags: deception buddhism lies inspiration stories fiction psychology false meditation deceit fake fable
One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.
John H. AlexanderTags: truth lies fiction storytelling
Fiction is the best the self-help book.
Quinn BarrettTags: fiction self-help quinn-barrett
…Mellor’s statement is extremist in two directions: human civilization is in imminent peril, and only one solution will work. I doubt both these formulations, and almost every fiction I have encountered that depends upon them.
Richard T. NashI had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me
Carlyle LabuschagneTags: fantasy fiction science-fiction young-adult dystopian-fiction hot-release new-release the-broken-destiny
As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.
Salman RushdieTags: fiction short-story
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
Wallace StevensTags: reality fiction metaphor
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at its melancholy rim, green in its envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in its greatest rages, black.
Salman RushdieTags: fiction short-stories
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