I am! I’m studying what’s out there.

Happily ever after?” “If justice doesn’t triumph and love doesn’t make the circle in entertainment fiction, what’s the point? Real life sucks too often.

To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another’s dreams.

Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.

Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time.”–Mea Brin, The Huntress

It’s better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you’re fighting for.

For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn’t even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To...

When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

TRUTH in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

when you live outside the law, you have to be flexible

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)

*Story of a Girl By:Sara Zarr*Lexile:760 SRC:12 pts.*Personal Issues*Choice of getting a job to move out*Major Choice*In Process of making it happen*It effects her bother his girlfriend and their baby, because they will move out...

In writing there is art – and in art there is craft …

I just don’t want them to change me, if I’m going to die I still want to be me.

With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the...

You can’t make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn’t like it. Life isn’t perfect.

…he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he’d have to be the one to let go.”From Alice Hoffman’s “Local Girls”, pg.102.

On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else’s story.

I am strong and skilled in battle, and I know how to defend what’s mine.” – Koll in Mating Season

You’ve a pretty good nerve,” said Ratchett. “Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?”It will not.”If you’re holding out for more, you won’t get it. I know what a thing’s worth to me.”I, also M. Ratchett.”What’s...

The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression...

Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they...

never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. Stock complaints about the inherent pleasure of ye olde format are bandied about whenever some new upstart...

The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

LOVE is the most incendiary element ever known, once it sparks the heart, the flame is inextinguishable.

Make sure he’s worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.

there is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they’ll get there.

Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but...

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire…

I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction now for just three-eighths of a century. This isn’t bad for someone who only admits...

I had a dream about you. We were two lovers disguised as librarians. We met in the non-fiction section, and that’s the truth. Or at least that’s what we told your parents. They didn’t need...

To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it into the vast external cosmos, and away from all that introversion and introspection,...

I closed my eyes and dived into foreign water.

as if” character of the world, they are actually realer than they appear.

It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

You drink, and your thirst increases,” it says. Time, I’m sure, passed by, but we remained unavailable for comment.

The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open – the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often...

Jika kita menyukai sesuatu, bagaimanapun keadaannya, kita hanya akan tetap menyukainya. Rasa suka itu tidak akan terpengaruh oleh faktor lain. Suka, ya, suka, dan akan begitu walau dilihat dari sudut pandang mana saja.

It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me.

Everything I know, I know because of love.