Thoughtful Fiction Quotes

#1. Powell's face appeared on screen. "It's true, the doomsday crowd is a little crazy," she said, looking thoughtful. "But that doesn't mean they're wrong.

Forrest Carr

#2. The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. Emma felt a happiness so intense it was almost sorrow.

Cassandra Clare

#4. Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. I didn't think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help.

John Knowles

#5. Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.

Gregory Benford

#7. I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

Maelle Gavet

#8. Write what you're thinking. Write one fucking word, and that will be good enough for now.

Pepper Winters

#9. I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

Jennifer Weiner

#10. Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period.

Michael Swanwick

#11. Wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any nation under the sun.

Peter Marshall

#12. All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

Colum McCann

#13. Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk,
when you could not even walk.

Akash Lakhotia

#14. If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.

Kim Yuna

#15. It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.

Janet Morris

#16. Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

Shaun Jeffrey

#17. It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

Leighton Meester

#18. Life is like a giant hors d'oeuvre tray in that it is to be savored.

Jack Fitzgerald

#19. Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

T.K. Naliaka

#20. Time in the most powerful thing.
Not money, not power, not hope.
A person can have everything they
desire but without time they are,
all useless.

Akash Lakhotia

#21. I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.

Angela Carter

#22. The difference between an achiever and a loser is,
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets.

Akash Lakhotia