Top 100 Action Fiction Quotes
#1. Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
Barry Eisler
#2. Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don't fall.
Henry Mosquera
#3. Lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!
Rick Riordan
#4. It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.
Natalie Portman
#5. I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes
Lauren Bradshaw
#6. Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the interior of the chopper, and then it sliced away a piece of sky and disappeared into the void.
-Narrator, Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project
Daniel P. Douglas
#7. Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
H.P. Lovecraft
#8. If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.
Guy Pearce
#9. Approach everything with a careful tongue. - Elder God from The Thousand Years War
Angel Ramon Medina
#10. Careful, mother, or you could end up dangling in another's webs.
Karen Azinger
#11. The first movie my dad ever showed me was Predator - I was five. And I think the second one was Jaws. I've has this understanding of fiction for a very, very long time but I've also had this thing where I've idolized the male action heroes because that's what I watched with my dad.
Katee Sackhoff
#12. A lot of times in my short fiction there isn't much dramatized scene - there are a lot of short, interconnected bits, snippets of conversation, continual action, and so on. I frequently rely pretty heavily on voice.
Dan Chaon
#13. 'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.
Alan Furst
#14. Even if their guilt actually does produce a good action, it will be the saddest good action you'll ever see, and it will be of no use to them because their goal is not to obey, but to feel less guilty, thus nothing about their souls will be reshaped.
Geoffrey Wood
#15. He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself.
Hilary Mantel
#16. If there is a widely shared concept of intentional action ... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.
Alfred Mele
#17. Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within.
Larry Itejere
#18. There will be no holding off, there will be no remorse and there will be no hesitation. They will die and they will die a horrible death. This is my pledge and vow, so bank on it and don't try to stop me.
Mark A. McCormick
#19. The Chinese went to their knees trying desperately to get their rifles into action, but the Mongols were on them too fast. Abusing their horses cruelly, they drove them right in among the riflemen, and men were kicked, stamped upon and died beneath frantic hooves.
Walter Kaylin
#20. Men will continue to suffer from their own connivance, until they recognise and act upon the truth within themselves.
Georgina Zuvela
#21. Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)
Stephen B. Pearl
#22. The pity in Matt's eyes was almost too much to bear but she found herself unable to turn away. She had only seen that look once and that was when he almost lost Nichole. The sparkle in his eye burned out as if it was nothing more than a dying ember leaving his brown eyes dark and cold. Like Scott's.
Julia Barkey
#23. I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.
Ethan Hawke
#24. We never leave a man behind and as Death Adders we always take care of our own. -Reilly Campbell
J.J. Snow
#25. Perfection is found in the doing, not in the results.
Clay Mitchell
#27. She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch.
Leslie McNeill
Richard Finney
#29. I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.
Denise Mina
#30. I think when science fiction is at its worst, it's just spaceships flying around shooting at each other. There has to be a lot more going on than that ... science fiction is about exploring new worlds and new ideas, not about ray guns and action, necessarily.
Jeff Lemire
#31. Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.
Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.
Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people.
John Duncan
#32. All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.
Margaret Atwood
#34. Character is the very life of fiction. Setting exists only so that the character has someplace to stand. Plot exists so the character can discover what he is really like, forcing the character to choice and action. And theme exists only to make the character stand up and be somebody.
John Gardner
#35. You're not safe with me."
He cut me off, seeming to growl. "I don't want to be safe. I want to be with you. You can't do this alone.
S.G. Holster
#36. Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just ...
Jean: A little brat who swears a lot
Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak
Roy: Useless. Just useless
Alphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that ...
Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!!
Hiromu Arakawa
#37. How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies?
Todd Morr
#38. We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery.
Karen Azinger
#39. Fight with me again and let us prove that we will keep what is ours! - Corin
Claire M. Banschbach
#41. We're in America; why do I have to "Press 1" for English?
Allan Hall
#42. About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": "What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.
Belinda Jack
#43. The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon.
Martin Hopkins
#44. Oh dios mio, she makes me burn, she makes me need. She is etching herself into mi alma
P.T. Macias
#45. Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.
Phil Boyer
#46. Don't worry yourself. It is better that you are cautious and safe than to be accepting and sorry. Trust must be earned. I hope I have now earned yours.
S.W. Lothian
#47. Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge.
Karen Azinger
#49. I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.
Henry Mosquera
#50. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...
Martin Hopkins
#51. I got the best Mark-1 eyeballs in the fleet. Ain't no one can keep up with me! - Duv Jackson, Gunship
J.J. Snow
#52. I'm now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I've had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word 'lizard.'"
-- spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer... to Chris Dixon.
Richard Finney
#53. Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.
Jon Scieszka
#54. Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn't in it anymore. It had already left the building.
Milly Silver
#55. The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.
Amy Lignor
#56. A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated - as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.
Ayn Rand
#57. The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say 'I read a science fiction novel that says it's not a problem.' You take action.
Al Gore
#58. I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since.
E.A. De Graaf
#59. Crap this apology stuff is hard!
J.J. Snow
#60. It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.
Milly Silver
#61. I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head. - Stephanie Carovella
Nina D'Angelo
#62. Buddy, you have no idea what I am capable of. Now, put the rifle down on the ground. Step back and walk away. Then leave this place and do not ever come back. If you do that, I will let you live.
James J. Caterino
#63. How do you know I'm any different from the broken, beaten slave you found over seven years ago? - Corin
Claire M. Banschbach
#64. [The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.
Frank Norris
#66. From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
Garry Disher
#68. I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
Joe Haldeman
#69. Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time.
Karen Azinger
#71. The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Henry Mosquera
#73. Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.
Martin Hopkins
#74. Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!
Nancy Farmer
#76. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.
Henry Mosquera
#77. Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver
Dan Wells
#78. Man, sometimes it really sucks being the only sane one on this ship. - Duv Jackson, Gunship
J.J. Snow
#79. The waiter repeated, The cocktails are from Mr Seadon. He asked me to tell you that he thought you'd enjoy them. They are called Secrets.
Milly Silver
#81. All I see is my father's tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.
Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#82. I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It's not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.
- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#83. The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.
Noorilhuda
#84. None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.
Meg Xuemei X
#85. One honorable young man can make all the difference ...
Robert L. Beck
#86. Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us everything we want in our military science fiction, but never allows the hardware and action to overshadow Paen and everyone else caught in the crossfire.
Dayton Ward
#87. And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar-e-Taiba camp.
Vivek Pereira
#88. She paused in the doorway, tipping her head to consider Brittany, who only glared. "You're right. I think most girls don't look like the tooth fairy dresses them every day.
Wendy Knight
#90. Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.
Karen Azinger
#91. The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical ...
Amanda Dubin
#92. Here's a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you. - Antiope Flint - DREAMNASIUM
Geoffrey Thorne
#93. As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he'd left no survivors, the killer looked at the rising smoke and gave himself a pat on the back for another assignment well done ...
Peprah Boasiako
#94. Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.
Karen Azinger
#95. while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.
Ralph Ellison
#96. Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.
Karen Azinger
#97. I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies.
Walter Hill
#98. If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.
Brad Thor
#99. I might've found a way to cure them." Crystal said in a jumble of words.
"Cure them? Permanently?"
"Yes sir."
He thought about this a moment before speaking, "You've got two weeks, can you do it by then?"
"That's plenty of time sir, thank you.
Julia Barkey
#100. Placing his suitcase on the seat next to him, he unbuttoned his suit jacket, loosened up his necktie and removed his fedora. He kept his custom eye wear on and made himself comfortable, looking more like a Wall Street accountant than the cold killer he'd become ...
Peprah Boasiako
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