What will I do if I find myself with a heart?” “Lose it constantly, I imagine.

None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the...

Defining moment in new telepathist’s life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn’t telepathic, doesn’t see auras,doesn’t know what life on ethereal astral plane is like.

A poem can’t do its work if you only read snippets of it.

Tonight let’s slay some dragons.

People in books were always so charming, and all their thoughts and actions so comprehensible. They all invariably had a clear, well-defined object in life, and strove through a few hundred engrossing pages to attain...

I don’t mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it…

A story has to break your heart or it’s not worth telling.

It must have really not liked me, but I can’t imagine why, don’t say anything Amelia.”Amelia shrugged her shoulders, “It liked me the first time.”Otto smirked, “Well I have no idea why.

Peace is one thing, revolution is another. You were either impatient or highly optimistic to think one would lead to the other. – Panchali Draupadi.

There was no control except the “mood of his power… and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him play someplace where the weather for instance could change the next series...

She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman’s dress, she thinks, a young woman’s dress....

He’ll probably be a bit Looneyville for a while.

You have chosen the path of darkness.

I’m not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again…

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

Humph! A text message that said, ‘What’s up, sexy?’ You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the bedroom—

Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.

I didn’t know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.

For Honor and the Octagon!

For most of us free-thinking, wild hearts, our relationship with God or the Universe will go through peaks and valleys – transforming into new concepts and beliefs, completely disappearing, at times, only then to instantly...

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

There are only two things in life,’ Bergé said. ‘Love and beauty.

Big lots,’ I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,’ was David’s...

As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you....

I’m not a representative of Pakistan; I’m just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I believe it personally.

You cannot discover new oceans until you are willing to lose sight of the shore.

Grover spit expertly between his teeth. “You know, Nerburn,” he said, “you’re like those treaty negotiators we used to have to deal with. Always in a hurry. Sometimes there are preliminaries.” “There are preliminaries and...

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else’s dream.

Probably not, but we can pretend.

How often do you ignore a dream, dismiss it as fantasy and then see echoes of the dream around you the following day? What if a dream were the forewarning of what will become your...

The unification of worlds is an author’s priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.

Why worry, if today be sweet’?

How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?

For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality

It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, “NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!” in a manner that could only indicate deadly...

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.

I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song. You see, I do not write for glory or to get anything for...

And why is it all men thinkeverything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain sillydrivel? Don’t men have romantic notions? Don’t men dream of findingthe perfect love?

I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That’s not to say that graphic violence does not exist. It’s just that I find it quite...

I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don’t make a fuss – you can ‘beat it’ and there’s never enough. At least in my opinion...

Sex is like God, really. I know they’re both important, but if I think about them too much my head hurts.” -The Best Kept Secret

I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The bulk of what I know about human life I’ve gotten from...

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

It’s hard for me to talk about love,’ she said. ‘I think movies are the way I do that.

Mary approaches her before she is able to reach her station. “Hello Lily. Get anything special for Christmas?””Just the usual.” She answers. “Shattered dreams.

For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise – that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without...