We, men, who work hard to get somewhere in life, to make something of ourselves in life, to mean something to someone, to have what our ancestors never had…..We, men, who toil for a name,...

Stories are Life’s instruction manuals.

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict...

Christian-like”, Messianic? We should cherem (ban) them from every aspect of Jewish life. And we must strip them of every Jewish privilege!

Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

The exhausted earth groaned and quivered under the monotonous glare of the sun. Spirals of heat rose from the ground as if from molten lava. A panting lizard crawled painfully over the fevered rock in...

The Element of Surprise is their in every day,It’s when you wake up.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell you really don’t want to cry. As a tear falls between by breasts,...

I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear & suspicion that one of the characters will start an uncontrollable rebellion.

I didn’t even notice that my shoes were full of mud by the time I reached the rocky shore. There was ragged yellow police tape tied to some branches, dancing in the wind. It was...

Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose wiser, with a stronger measure of compassion.

but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything; for among them there...

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer’s thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the...

They weren’t true stories; they were better than that.

A dark shadow rose from the depth of the watercourse. Forced to crawl out of the oceans rolling waves, it struggled against the pull of the undertow. Rising, it moved further up the white sandy...

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

Ich glaube, daß die Umstände des Lebens, so zufällig wie sie sind, uns weniger dauerhafte Wahrheiten lehren als die Fiktionen, die sich auf diese Wahrheiten gründen.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction – it fascinated rather than repelled.

I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us...

A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of...

Adults…struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire...

History is written by the survivors.

When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel...

The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what...

Hate did not give way to heroism.

Great fiction is the art of a soul.

What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to the bleak and inescapable truth. There was no cure for...

Like I’ve told you before, Beverly, I don’t care where we live as long as we’re together.” Vance… “The Elder Effect

Everyone has a story. I don’t believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.

I don’t know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time – imagining the silent classrooms in total darkness and the playgrounds left lonesome and bare – creepily peculiar.

She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the white wall. She beckoned to me. I took a step and another. I...

Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you thatyou don’t pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.The same should apply to ballsy remarks.

Can you imagine how many people got laid in here?” Abby said, walking to the other side of the Jacuzzi.

I would rather avoid disaster than take it out for dinner and a movie. – Chynna Lennox

Love”I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.”Augustus,”I said.”I am,” he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not...

It’s your destiny to be here, Dana.””Oh really. How nice. Is it Brandon’s destiny to be here too?””Yep.

In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they’re doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.

What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction.

Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented.Reality needs none of the above.

Dar cine iubeşte e dator să împărtăşească destinul fiinţei iubite.