Iction Quotes

#1. (F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.

Charles McCarry

#2. This a work of f(r)iction, where fact and fiction rub up against each other, and nobody wants to know it regardless.

Bob N. Boguslavski

#3. F(r)iction is the best of everything we've ever loved. F(r)iction is experimental. F(r)iction is strange. F(r)iction pokes the soft spots, touches nerves most would rather remain protected. F(r)iction is secrets and truths and most importantly - stories. F(r)iction is weird, in every respect.

Tethered By Letters

#4. Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Bruce Sterling

#5. I'm a royal pain in the behind.

Cristina Saralegui

#6. Let me guess," Cassidy said, "because someone else picked it out and put it up in a room meant to encapsulate who you are, even though you have no interest in boats." "If I say yes, do I get to kiss you?

Robyn Schneider

#7. Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly

K.A. Young

#8. May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends.
[Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos
Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

Ovid

#9. Boots and guns had replaced banners and horses, but the story was the same. Men with black hearts. With black souls.

Kate Mosse

#10. The soul is one with its faith.

C. A. Bartol

#11. A defeatist attitude was not in his gene pool.

DiAnn Mills

#12. Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

Junot Diaz

#13. I knew I had to let you go, but I didn't know how. I could barely go a week without you, so how the hell could I go a lifetime without you?

Allie Everhart

#14. Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool

Plato

#15. True friendship is counted in memories, experiences, and troubles shared; it's a bond built up over time in person, not a virtual tally on the Internet. It finds you; you don't find it.

Connor Franta

#16. The first time I was spanked I cried. The second time I cried out for more.

Chloe Thurlow

#17. Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Nawal El Saadawi