Animal Fiction Quotes

#1. Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. A small white rabbit with floppy ears and a twitching pink nose bounded out from the thick forest brush. Fingers twitching at his side, James stepped toward the small animal, a nervous giddiness creeping up inside of him.

Brandi Salazar

#3. Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew that one in one thousand food animals suffered actions like those described above, would you continue to eat animals? One in one hundred? One in ten?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#4. Who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

Allen Ginsberg

#5. No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Ayn Rand

#6. Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.

Christopher Huh

#7. A lot of the names in Talon reference other people or events. For example Amelia, the giant Eagle, was a "tip of my hat" to the extraordinary aviator Amelia Earhart. Both love(d) to fly!

Christopher Gerard

#8. To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

Rita Ora

#9. Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

William Hazlitt

#10. Don't needlessly draw attention to yourself. If you're twerking on the beach, a circling pteracuda could mistake you for a wounded animal.

Andrew Shaffer

#11. I threw my hands on my hips, shocked by the irony. A Mather helping a Greensmith? Hell was freezing over somewhere beneath our feet and every kind of farm animal was sprouting wings to fly.

Leigh Goff

#12. Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

Quentin Tarantino

#13. I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

Ken Jennings

#14. I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.

Brian K. Vaughan

#15. You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.

Monroe Ariel

#16. The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

Jonathan Kozol

#17. So love is like a test,but in what sense?To what end?Who was carrying out the test?But I think I did believe that Love had immense power to unearth all that was good in us,refine us and reveal to us the better versions of ourselves.

Ayobami Adebayo

#18. Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

O. Henry

#19. Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.

C.J. Anderson

#20. The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are

Joyce Meyer

#21. I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Maya Angelou

#23. Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

Geraldine Jewsbury

#24. Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.
"There's nothing to say."
He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?

Stephanie Witter

#25. Forsaking all other thoughts, he rutted into her, in a fashion more animal than human. His eruption he held fast within, so that she squirmed against the sensation before accepting her own fall into oblivion, her walls pulsing to an echoing rhythm.

from The Gentlemen's Club

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#26. Mankind has a mandate to care for the earth and all that is within it, especially the animals, and an animal should never be placed in a position where he needs to be concerned about such things. But this is not that time.

Tara Pollard

#27. We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

Chuck Palahniuk

#28. From the dark forest that bordered the soft ploughed fields, came a low cry that did not belong to any animal. It was accompanied by the sound of branches bending and snapping, and the splintering of wood as trees were crushed or toppled onto their sides.

Peter James West