"If it's fiction, then it better be true."

Fiction, Truth, Authenticity, Storytelling

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"May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Fate, Anger, Judgment

"You're much shorter than my mom.""Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle."That's no way to talk to a vampire.""Bloodsucking brat.""Better" he said."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

Fiction, Humor, Dialogue, Playfulness, Personality

"It all floats down here!"

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Fear, Mystery, Darkness, Horror

"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."

John Green, American Author

Fiction, Novel, Reality, Truth, Life

"The whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Wish, Desire, Irony, Mistake

"An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Disguise, Fear, Danger

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Magic, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Adventure, Truth, Regret, Power

"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Fiction, Language, Past

"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."

Judith Krantz, American Novelist

Fiction, Fun, Writing, Years

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"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

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"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."

Escape

"Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive."

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"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away."

Addiction

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"May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."

"You're much shorter than my mom.""Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle."That's no way to talk to a vampire.""Bloodsucking brat.""Better" he said."

"It all floats down here!"

"The whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want."

"An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?"

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

"Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you."

"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."

"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."

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"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."

"The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more."

"He was my best friend and I needed him."

"Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap."

"If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?"

"Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write."

"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."

"Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive."

"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away."