Quote by Scott Lynch Download Open image ““Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we’ve made it our meal ticket?”” — Scott Lynch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.” — Talia Copy Share Image
“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“So why a book? Well, since you’ve come into my life, you’ve been a constant source of entertainment while simultaneously driving me insane. I… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But why this obsession with what's actually true, the real, all that? Can't you accept that our lives are always part fiction?” — Bhaskar Ghose Copy Share Image
“While I am absorbed by fiction, I pull the strings like a puppeteer; I make things happen. It's a passion and a lifelong obsession.” — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“I felt I had to write down my observations about you in a book. And also for money, so you could eat and continue… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“Please, boy. Let’s not start out with either of us insulting the other’s intelligence. There are only three people in life you can never… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they’re lying—it seems they never die at all.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“ESPARA, FORMERLY a seat of prestige only one step below Therim Pel itself, had descended from its imperial years the way some men and… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“What an interesting choice of words. “Not real, and never were.” Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our profession? Why… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Why were all his fantasies so calamitous for that table, which had done him no injury?” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets,” said Sabetha, “than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“He was bewildered at how quickly he had escaped his old life and fallen into this new one with strangely pleasant crazy people.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day. — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
