Metafictional Quotes

#1. It is the ultimate metafictional act, not homicide but suicide. (Wallace would say that one of the problems of metafiction is that there is no difference.)

D.T. Max

#2. I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.

Paul Auster

#3. Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

Robert Coover

#4. If i would ever fall in love ... I'm sure I would want that person to belong to me. I'd make them all mine ... but I might ruin them in the process. So I'm never going to fall in love. I don't need love right now. I have friends with the same purpose as me. I have all of you. -Rei

Naoko Takeuchi

#5. You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

Stephanie Rice

#6. Don't take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.

Billy Graham

#7. No is easier to do. Yes is easier to say.

Jason Fried

#8. Authentic leadership is about leading from the core of who we are to inspire each of us to our best contribution toward a shared mission.

Henna Inam

#9. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend on within or without himself."1

Max Lucado

#10. A victorious life is as a result of a correct way of thinking

Sunday Adelaja

#11. I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

Mika Brzezinski

#12. A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo'.

Jose Saramago

#13. Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

Tom Sizemore

#14. I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

Bill Kreutzmann

#15. The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone.

Andre Alexis

#16. I wonder, skeleton, would you still be alive? Would you be conscious if you were dice, or keys on a piano?" "Always wanted a life in music," Skulduggery mumbled.

Derek Landy