Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.
Sheri ReynoldsTags: death fiction physics cemetary rural-life
I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.
Diane SetterfieldHe has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a heavy paperweight to pin them down.
Michael ChabonTags: humor fiction satire hollywood jewish
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
Richard BachTags: inspiration on-fiction fiction values
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: devil writing evil grace on-fiction fiction storytelling
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
Diane SetterfieldTags: books writing stories on-fiction fiction
The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.
David Clement-DaviesTags: fantasy fiction wolves alpha pack the-sight
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
Jasper FfordeTags: humor on-fiction fiction
Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together.
Richelle MeadBut I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.
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