Fiction writing Quote by B.M. Bower

“guns were a complicated business, and once you pointed a weapon at someone, especially someone with a weapon of his own, the thing you…

— Paul Auster

“The sight of so many guns, mostly deer rifles and duck guns but with a smattering of black rifles and riot shotguns, made him…

— Larry Correia

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“Metaphors were so bloody: people shot messengers,, flogged dead horses, cut the throats of their competitors. Perhaps that was life; perhaps that's what it…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Curious the small and lesser fates that join to lead a man to this. The thousand brawls and stoven jaws, the clubbings and the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Before the end of the day there will take place what became known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral … All Ike Clanton…

— Tom Clavin

“They trudged through a deep snowdrift. Then, as if blocked by some invisible force field, they stopped. John had seen a lot of crime…

— Linda Castillo

“They went Indian file. First came the scouts, clever, graceful, quiet. They had rifles. Next came the antitank gunner, clumsy and dense, warning Germans…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Guns were alive in America, and death was their random gift.”

— Salman Rushdie

“It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as…

— George R.R. Martin

“How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your point of…

— Richard Matheson

“We walked away from all that was warm and dear and stood frightened in cold rain where the guns fired, and in the end,…

— Charles Todd