Fiction Quote by Charles McCarry Download Open image ““(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.”” — Charles McCarry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction
“Unfortunately, what should or should not be had no relation to what was.” — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
“This a work of f(r)iction, where fact and fiction rub up against each other, and nobody wants to know it regardless.” — Bob N. Boguslavski Copy Share Image
“Abashed, should assumed its place in the list of what could be accomplished, what couldn't.” — Wendy Mnookin Copy Share Image
“Stupid things, in the end. Nonsensical. But stupid, nonsensical things were sometimes the most important.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“Everything was wrong presently, but they had everything they needed to make it right. When something doesn’t want to be found, it has a… — Sarah Noffke Copy Share Image
“it didn’t really matter what that book was about. It was what it meant that was more important.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“In these modern times, the only sensible thing to be is nonsensical.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“It is just as important to give all of what you are, than all of what you have. Nevertheless, it is always reciprocated.” — Michelle D. Rosado Copy Share Image
“The purpose and the essential properties were not somewhere behind the things, they were in them, in everything.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“All suburban housing developments look alike, and besides, every Yankee who ever crossed the Potomac except Ulysses S. Grant got lost as soon as… — Charles McCarry Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, in the here and now, everything depended on the houbara bustard.” — Charles McCarry Copy Share Image
“...and I was reminded…of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show up,for something… — Charles McCarry Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image