More than likely you’ll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there...

How did I end up in this situation? I’m the district sales manager of a napkin factor. Why is my daughter in space?

Yeah, it’s just me and my trash can here,” as I patted its lid and started pushing it up the driveway.

Ranerio wrapped his hand around mine, guiding my fingers like Lucius had done when he’d shown me the latch behind the dressing-room door mirror. But while the warrior I loved had been offering me an...

Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues

Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long list of chores, for me, Leya Truelong, this was a day like no...

I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time they divorced.

Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.

Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that Galilei ascertained the mechanical principles of...

(Out of the Shadow is) Exceptional….Meticulously plotted, beautifully paced, its an intelligent, fascinating story that draws you in.I couldn’t put it down, a great read..Winn, masterfully weaves together the lives of characters into a rich...

Unintended jealousy is merciless.

There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is...

Even though we don’t admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard’s lyrics, or on the pages in the Library

For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.

…but the air’s flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There’s nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or...

Vital Perception

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.

Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox collection.) But a people collection? That had to be the most bizarre one...

We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting us. It’s indestructible – it can never be broken. The thread is the key item that links us...

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture’s memory.

…and from here I realized, with the deepest sense of my being, that we can erect and dismantle the great walls of the world, but we will only truly survive as a species when we...

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

Brandon tilted his head back and closed his eyes. Unbelievable. He had his name. God had given it. Just like Reece said he would.

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but...

Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world.

I also read modern novels – I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

playdate” is never initiated by the players (i.e., children), but only by their mothers.In American-suburban social climbing through playdating, this is the chapter you’ve been awaiting.

And who is your master?”No answer came.Andrew’s insatiable rage rose up and swallowed his grief like a yawning ocean mouth, the darkest depths surging to the surface to form a mighty tidal wave. He closed...

It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn’t show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think it was similar for carpenters and writers, and he knew it was the...

Oooo wee! You see that chump go flying? Look’eah, nothing like charred demon to make a brotha feel right. – Calvin Freeman (Sineaters‬:Devotion Book One)

When dancing with a pit bull, it’s always best to let him lead.

There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects are made up of many elements—the sun, the...

Supaya kau tahu. Ada harga yang harus dibayar dengan menjadi perempuan.

Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Life was a destiny waiting to be seized.

I think it all basically breaks down to something like this: You have to look and feel great first. If you eat well, exercise and get enough sleep, you will have ample energy and the...

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there.It’s the magic of fiction: you...

We hope that this verdict will go a long way in dispelling this 18-month science fiction argument that they used.

You look like the vamp who bled the cat.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors–we hope–of your life come from reading fiction.

How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/’woo’], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education...

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it,but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

The problem with a lot of people who read only literary fiction is that they assume fantasy is just books about orcs and goblins and dragons and wizards and bullshit. And to be fair, a...

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it’s not – it’s a different kind of truth – it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn’t it?

You deserved it.

It is not my job to explain the story or understand the story or reduce it to a phrase or offer it as being a story about any specific person, place, or thing. My job...