Fiction Quote by William Gibson

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

— Anonymous

“It was thrillingly comfortable being with Will. But also uncomfortably thrilling.”

— Michelle Dalton

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely…

— Richard Russo

“uncomfortably conscious that women of her age did not generally hide in cupboards drinking whisky”

— Clara Benson

“I hope you find some stories here that you will enjoy, or wonder about, or that linger uncomfortably in the mind when you wish…

— Garth Nix

“That which had made Helmholtz so uncomfortably aware of being himself and all alone was too much ability.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Alexandria,” he began, the name lingering on the morning air as though it did not belong amongst trees, but instead somewhere much safer, much…

— S.C. Parris

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The…

— Jean Rhys

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.

— Lillian Hellman

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

— John Hersey

“The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out through that…

— Marion Dane Bauer

People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family…

— Chris Bohjalian