Badly Written Fiction Quotes

#1. (Slap) "Owhhh ... " Raymond yelled as the Old Man's cane hit his face.

Judy Byington

#2. This guy.
This fucking guy.

Matt Fraction

#3. If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

John C. Maxwell

#4. You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

Keith Richards

#5. People tend to misinterpret imagination for being willing to do everything, instead of having the capability to put your mind to anything. There is a difference.

Lionel Suggs

#6. I want a Britain that is one nation, with shared values and purpose, where merit comes before privilege, run for the many not the few, strong and sure of itself at home and abroad.

Tony Blair

#7. What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#8. I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

Stanley Elkin

#9. And rich white people were not so hard on Negroes; it was the poor whites who hated Negroes.

Anonymous

#10. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age

Jane Austen

#11. Know what one of the guys at the drive-through Starbucks has on his forearm?" Bernadette said. "A paper clip! It used to be so daring to get a tattoo. And now people are tattooing office supplies on their bodies.

Maria Semple

#12. What do you want from me?" Tears fell down her cheeks as she pleaded for an answer.
"I need to be close to you," I admitted, feeling my lips tremble too. "Please let me be close to you." I was twisting my fingers together, begging pathetically for something I didn't deserve.

Elizabeth Finn

#13. Listen you little turd, don't tell me my business. It's not worth the risk," the Old Man snarled.
"But Green ... Yikes, that stings!

Judy Byington