Fiction Quote by Jael McHenry Download Open image ““I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.”” — Jael McHenry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction
“I'm more excited than I'll admit when my hand closes around the paperback. It's like I've been handed a secret, a piece of her… — Amy Matayo Copy Share Image
“Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.” — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Only you know what's really floating around in your mind. Call it fiction and keep everyone guessing.” — Richard Myerscough Copy Share Image
“I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“We all have our own patterns, I guess ... And whether we like it or not, they persist.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“HEARTBREAK IS STUPID and impossible. Hearts don’t break. Hearts squeeze, they wrench, they ache, they shrivel. Hearts pull apart in wet chunks like canned… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“Contact. When someone touches me wrong it isn’t a feeling. It isn’t hate or fear or pain. It is just blackness and a chant… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“This is the way I’ve always been. I think of the answer long after the person asking the question has lost interest and walked… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“Panic, panic, can't panic. Think of food. Think of sugar. I am a sugar cube in cold water. I won't dissolve. Precise edges. Made… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“Food has power. Nonna knew that. Ma did too. I know it now. And though it can't save me, it might help me, in… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us… — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“Her hand is close to my arm. My options are limited. I can't run away. I can't handle this. I lose myself in food.… — Jael McHenry 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