Literary fiction Quotes

“As people's hopes soared, Jana felt a tinge of fear.”

— F.C. Malby

“What do writers look like?”

— Graham Spaid

“The world is indeed a cold, hard stone.”

— Graham Spaid

“The emotion was the most important thing.”

— Graham Spaid

“Needs are stronger than liking.”

— Ravindra Shukla

“The Lord giveth and the world taketh away.”

— Maryann Austin

“As with life, so with words.”

— Sid Gustafson

“History was censored. The kitchen remembered.”

— Angelika Regossi

“If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)”

— Johannes Gouws

“Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too." - Jim Harrison”

— Rod Drought

“like literary fiction, mathematical imagination entertains pure possibilities.”

— Daniel Tammet

“Wouldn’t the joys of life lose all colour, if life was eternal?”

— Constantina Maud

“The signal has been sent and ignored so many times that it has learned to send itself more quietly.”

— Asif Kabir

“If loving the written word is wrong...I don't want to be right!”

— Junnita Jackson

“Is it the darkness of my face or the darkness of space? And is there a difference?”

— Andri E. Elia

“The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your…

— Jessica Bell

“One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out…

— F.C. Malby

“The morgue was the name the human workers gave to this room in the facility. They were careful not to utter it…

— A.R. Merrydew

“Maybe that’s why I was so afraid of Sasha’s love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at…

— Alexia Purdy

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because…

— Amy Tan

“As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity. The human spirit then dies…

— Earl Warhus

“And Tarquin,’ Semilla said quietly. ‘He has been in league with them all along?’ ‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed.”

— A.R. Merrydew

“Mr Martinek turned back to Jana. 'Thirty-eight per cent alcohol, sixty-two per cent fire - all the way from Karlovy Vary.”

— F.C. Malby

“Every damn one of us has faults. I feel like I was dealt an especially crummy hand." "It got ugly. I became…

— Virginia Aird

“As they approached she turned her head suddenly and looked at me as if I were the source of some new sound…

— R. Garcia Vazquez

“Then there was silence, the air like ice. Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some kind of…

— Alice Munro

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a…

— Neil Cross

“She stood panting as adrenalin fired up her muscles. Flipping open the safety catches on both of her laser pistols, she set…

— A.R. Merrydew

“The epiphany machine will not discover anything about you that you do not, in some way, already know. But think for a…

— David Burr Gerrard

“The blind faith in some half-assed conspiracy theories lines up with the logic of having to believe in something with no questions…

— Asaad Almohammad

“O, gentle Bard, if thou couldst but glimpse our digital age! We set words in light called ‘blogs,’ Which are, alas, neither…

— Stewart Stafford

“The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers…

— C. Lynn Murphy

“Evil should not be, Detective Vera. Truly never can be. But in defining it as such, an inherent human bond with negativity…

— John Claude Smith

“As the sun went down outside, the television screen started completely lighting up the room in obnoxiously bright colors at hyperactive speeds.…

— J.C. Henderson

“Some people say he engineered his own arrest to gain an insight into modern methods of policing for a thriller he had…

— Graham Spaid

“To live, fiction must be read, and to be read it must be enjoyed. Why do so many people talk about the…

— Trevor Cole

“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your…

— Mark Haddon

“[Hurricane] Andrew tore trees apart; drove their shrieking limbs past our walls. All around us, it shoved huge deciduous behemoths flat to…

— Edward Fahey

“We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens.…

— Vladimir Nabokov