Contemporary fiction Quote by Hunter S. Jones Download Open image ““All writers are manipulative liars." Jack O. Savage, The Poet”” — Hunter S. Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemporary fiction Love story Love triangle Poetry Romance love Writing
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .” — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer... Jack's Theory. You may say what you will about me, though in a little while no one will remember… — Jack Kingsman Copy Share Image
“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, a rattlesnake strike makes the dance begin. Three hawks float in the light blue sky overhead. Crows caw and the sweet seduction of… — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
“With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore.” — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
“Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.” — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
“Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune with my… — Hunter S. Jones 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 contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share
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 Zooey, the sister gets in trouble and the brother comes to help her out. But I wanted to make sure that in my novel the sister had more to do than lie around on a sofa… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share
