Quotes on “fiction”

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Dreams only come true if youpoint yourself in their direction

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.

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.

But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.

Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Vane grabbed me. DuLac, let’s chat.Chat. British-speak for Stand still while I yell at you.

Do you think we can be friends? I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. Probably not, but we can pretend.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.