Contemporary fiction Quote by Amy Lapwing Download Open image ““Convention loves invention, but dares not take it home.”” — Amy Lapwing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemporary fiction Innovation
“Only those who break the shackles of convention can ever achieve greatness.” — Barry S. Brunswick Copy Share Image
“We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Dare to create. Dare to re-create. Daring never goes out of style.” — Talismanist Giebra Copy Share Image
“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“There is a special kind of moral support that a man craves from his peers. If he doesn’t get it, a man has two… — Tom Fahy Copy Share Image
“No one, it appears, took up his offer to commercialize his invention; like other inventions of his, it worked well for him, but mere… — Morton N. Cohen Copy Share Image
“You cannot make one invent at gun point. Forget the movies, and think about pampering inventors, not threatening them” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
“Ava glanced over at Napoleon, who was walking back toward them. She smirked at Juliet and said, "Sweetie, you are *not* the one.” — Jay Fingers Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
“A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What… — Venita Ellick Copy Share Image
“She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.” — Megan Duke Copy Share Image
“How'd you know that would help, Grandma? Used to have a regular who had attacks like that all the time. Poor guy. He was… — Jennifer LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me” — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
“When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness, that is… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
“You want me to change overnight, Katie, and I’m telling you right now that it’s not going to happen. You're asking me to forget… — Inger Iversen Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
