Fiction Quote by Nancy Thayer Download Open image “It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.” — Nancy Thayer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Too late
“None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late"… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live. — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure,… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
“The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other’s weaknesses and fears as much as we know… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart. — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
“Often, Bessie would reply, "Child, I don't think that's a question anyone on this earth has the true answer for. The best advice I… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in… — Nancy Thayer 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
