Quotes on “fiction”

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.

Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you.I remember how to fly.

And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said, Bathroom door beside you, and picked up a vase and hit the rising Damon over the head with it. Hard.

Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon

And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.

Ivy!' I stammered, then glared at Kisten. 'You told Ivy? Thanks a hell of a lot. Want to call my mom next?

Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.

Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.