Model Fiction Quotes

#1. Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

George Saunders

#2. I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.

Dyan Sheldon

#3. The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

Cathy Guisewite

#4. There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.

Teju Cole

#5. Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Dwight Eisenhower said, "Take as much time as you can to make a decision, but when you are out of time, decide and move forward.

Don H. Ross

#7. I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

Alan Alda

#8. It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning is heating the atmosphere. It is all a fiction.

Tom Segalstad

#9. But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Ah, yes, pink camo," I murmur, gesturing my chin at her tank top and hoodie. "Because you never know when you'll have to hide in a bubblegum factory.

Elisabeth Wheatley

#11. Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

A.J. Darkholme

#12. She wants another spin on the wheel of fortune? This was always my problem with her: I could never tell the difference between the feeling of love and the feeling of danger.

Scott Hutchins

#13. Her dark eyes slid to him. "I can't remember the last time I felt so good in clothes."
And he wanted to get her out of them.

Donna Grant

#14. When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.

Sophie Hannah

#15. And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate a new model? Then do it. That is part of your destiny, boy.

Kathleen McGowan

#16. I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.

Vivian Gornick

#17. I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

Charlie Sheen

#18. You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

Bernardo Bertolucci

#19. Real life is too sloppy a model for good fiction, Juan Diego had said.

John Irving

#20. I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Don DeLillo

#21. I never met a model I didn't like."

Coerte V.W. Felske

#22. I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best.He was my model as a kid. If there are people out there that want to write, all you need to do is read 20 of his stories to get an idea what it takes to make a story kick over.

Stephen King

#23. Death cures all ills. Well, most of them.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#24. I do go through a mini depression because one minute there are people yelling and screaming for me on stage and the next I'm at home and it's dead quiet. So it takes a while to come down.

Carrot Top

#25. What makes my jaw drop is that people today should base their lives on such an appalling role model as Yahweh - and, even worse, that they should bossily try to force the same evil monster (whether fact or fiction) on the rest of us.

Richard Dawkins

#26. If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

George Saunders