“There you are, Elaine. Go forth and create. And, by the way, when you get to that chapter about my romantic escapades—feel free to toss yourself in the mix.”— Darin Henry, J. Peterman, John O'Hurley, imdb.com
“I don't think I'll ever be able to forget Susie—ahhh. And most of all, I will never forget that one night. Working late on the catalog. Just the two of us. And we surrendered to temptation. And it was pretty good.”— David Mandel, J. Peterman, John O'Hurley, imdb.com
“It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.”— Saul Bellow, newyorker.com
“I remember them all. They’re all my friends, and some of them are my lovers, if you know what I mean.”— Stephen King, vulture.com
“I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“When life wears us down, great fiction gives us back our human shape.”— Kevin Hartnett, themillions.com
“You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“With your fairy tales and fabrications and potent manipulations, you have only succeeded in making me an alien to your every affection.”— Lori Jenessa Nelson, amazon.com
“Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“I got fired from my job at the library... Apparently the book on women’s rights doesn’t belong in the fiction section.”— Kamaritan, reddit.com
“A lag time exists between getting shot and knowing that you have been shot.”— Jennifer Egan, newyorker.com
“People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you’ve seen pictures.”— Jennifer Egan, newyorker.com
“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t change since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”— John Berger, amazon.com
“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget…I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really d…”— David Foster Wallace, goodreads.com
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”— Frank Herbert, sinanvural.com