"I write fiction""What's fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life."

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"I write fiction""What's fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life."

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"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

"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."

Robert Lutz, American Executive

Fiction, Media

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"We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that."

Capitalism

"I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me."

Education

"The impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving this little bit of light towardusimpossibly."

Existence

"All theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believe but believe is agraveyard. we have narrowed it down tothe butcherknife and themockingbird wish usluck."

Emotion

"Love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself."

Emotion

"Finally there is nothing here for death to take away."

Mortality

"I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored."

Madness

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

Politics

"I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow."

Art

"Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know."

Nature