Debut Fiction Quotes

#1. English. That was where I met him.

Andrew Koh

#2. The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

Ann Leckie

#3. Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

Janet Goodfriend

#4. A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness

Mark Peter Evans

#5. Always listen to your dog.

Margaret Mizushima

#6. There are only two things you'll ever need to know about me, Farin - and you should know them well. I'm very smart, and I'm very rich.

Heather O'Brien

#7. Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

Keith Urban

#8. My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and
of course
heart. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Not to be missed.

Nova Ren Suma

#9. I mostly believe, deep in my bones, that life is very simply beyond description; regardless of what one makes of it, life always spills over the parameters of how anyone has chosen to define it.

Cyril Wong

#10. Work hard, do things the right way, and things will go your way.

Tony Romo

#11. The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

David J. Schwartz

#12. If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.

Sakyong Mipham

#13. I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.

Ravi Shankar

#14. Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.

Humairaa Anseline

#15. The truth is, time marches on and you have two choices: You move forward, come what may, and you experience all the sour and sweet things that fly at you from around corners, or you sit still. Don't sit still.

Suzanne Palmieri

#16. Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.

Rachelle Rea Cobb

#17. The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.

Suzanne Palmieri

#18. For her and Nurul merely to share a meal cooked in their own kitchen was a triumph; to wake up together each morning a luxury.

Jolene Tan

#19. Brian organised for the body to be flown back.

Jolene Tan

#20. An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville's THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He is going to be a major new voice in suspense fiction.

Jeff Abbott

#21. Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.

William Bernhardt

#22. Ronan was always saying that he never lied, but he wore a liar's face.

Maggie Stiefvater