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...

Ik lees nauwelijks fictie. Onder ons gezegd en gezwegen, ik vind het iets voor verveelde huisvrouwen. Fictie. Dan Brown heb ik gelezen, omdat zoveel mensen dat kochten. Ik dacht, eens kijken of de massa smaak...

Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don’t need to be afraid.

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to...

A movie that gets closer to the life’s reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.–Egwene al’Vere

All of a sudden, life became too much to bear. Just like that, for no particular reason. Because there was a child’s corpse in the fridge on rue Parthenais. Because I had to start all...

Gugur bukan berarti sedih. Bagi angsana, gugur adalah kebahagiaan. Bahagia guguran bunganya menjadi berarti. Setidaknya bagi angin yang menghirup harum bunganya.Menggugurkan sesuatu untuk orang lain adalah awal kebahagiaan jika didasari dengan ketulusan. Seperti pohon angsana...

The Bible should be taught in schools – in English, with all the other fiction.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Go away and don’t be silly. You might as well ask what is the female angle on an equilateral triangle.

For a moment he came near to sharing their incredible belief—it would do no harm to mutter a prayer of thanks to the God of his childhood, the God of the Common and the castle,...

Having vision is much more than just being visual.

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer

To treat fiction as if it were a religious or moral sermon is about as far from the actuality of literature as it is possible to get and indeed it is, in my opinion, the...

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words ‘competent,’ ‘finished,’ ‘problem-free,’ fiction over which Writing-Program pre- and proscriptions loom with the enclosing force of horizons: no character without Freudian trauma in accessible...

Some justice, though did not deal with kindheartedness or good feeling toward others. No, justice had a darker side, a gray area where it mingled alongside vengeance, and only the wise and pure of heart...

On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving the vase from a thousand-piece death on the hardwood floor is the groove...

I was hoping it would, you know, gross somewhere around $30 million or something, which is what most science fiction films — the best ones — had done.

Don’t worry Stephen. The sproggers will care for her” Bob told him before letting out a spine shivering sinister laugh.

I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho’ the Goodness of a Man’s Heart did not incline him to relieve the Distresses of his...

. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I’d have to stop. I’d...

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

So let’s just forget about the whole thing and agree never to speak of it again. And I promise I’ll never lie to you again.Ah, but surely you must be saying, “Hey! Isn’t this entire...

There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can’t. And time passing is one thing that can’t be undone. Come this far, and you can’t go back.

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if...

I couldn’t believe it had taken me all these years to see this side of him. He tucked himself inside a shell, shutting himself away from others here because the palace had trapped him. Behind...

The Question is actually the answer

I thoughtyou were some kind of psychopath.” My frown deepens, as I consider whether he might in fact be a psychopath.

A pall fell over the room. A black shroud of disease and deathbeds and all the worst things from all the worst places. This mutant world, a tragic portmanteau, the unnatural marriage of two roots...

Do you want to risk it?

Y’know when your dog drags its butt across the carpet leaving a stain- It’s not as easy as it looks…”

I transform fiction into memory.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer’s head. In fiction, you just hope you’re precise enough to convey the intended effect.