Educational Fiction Quotes

Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet? ~ C.J. Milbrandt

For decades, chalk and alum have been added to bread, and burnt corn and peas ground up to make coffee. Vinegar is rendered sharper by the addition of sulphuric acid, arrowroot is added to milk to thicken it, mustard is eked out with flour, strychnine is added to beer for bitterness and green vitriol to encourage a foaming head. And these are but the harmless manipulations. ~ M.J. Carter

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) ~ Beth Fine

I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way. ~ T.C. Boyle

These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the same stale Washington ideas. Five decades and trillions of dollars after President Johnson waged his War on Poverty, the results of this big-government approach are in. ~ Marco Rubio

Today's breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

You will only be as good, as changing, as imaginative as those who control you and those who would presume that society will benefit only by their dictates at the expense of the freedoms of all the others. ~ Volker G. Fremuth

You're a crime fiction writer if...The injustices of this world boil your blood. You become a fucking supernova. So you write. ~ Verge Le Noir

If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life. ~ Walter Mosley

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over. ~ Will Hobbs

Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are not like the observable world around them. ~ Orson Scott Card

Let there be a time in the future, I prayed, when he laughs with his children, and plays on the shore with them, and spends all his nights in loving arms. Let us have that. To whom I was praying I did not know. The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it. ~ Juliet Marillier

The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought. ~ C.G. Rousing

Moonlight cast its gentle light before her, highlighting everything from the burgeoning garden to where cut alfalfa lay in wakes of swerving shadows. She kicked through it thoughtfully, remembering the first time. ~ Marcha A. Fox

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

You got that right, buddy," Paddy thought, but what Frost saw was a man nodding his dead in a knowing and sympathetic way. Paddy had learned the trick from a funeral parlor director in Brooklyn. ~ Marc Grossberg

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. ~ Norman Lock

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction. ~ Richard Hatch

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State. ~ Albert Einstein

The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail. ~ Imre Kertesz

Bright spots move around him like someone shook the stars from a blanket and they all went flying. ~ Lauren DeStefano

There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain topics, that require this special "women's fiction" designation, particularly when those books have the audacity to explore, in some manner, the female experience, which, apparently, includes the topics of marriage, suburban existence, and parenthood, as if women act alone in these endeavors, wedding themselves, immaculately conceiving children, and the like. ~ Roxane Gay

An act of kindness, be it a sweet word, or a supporting hand, is never wasted upon those with nothing in the world - Konjic ~ Rehan Khan

Real life is generally very haphazard in its plotting, and I think a lot of people lament that, and turn to fiction to briefly experience, albeit vicariously, a more satisfying sort of reality. We want to see *sense*
not necessarily happy endings, but effectual actions and significant outcomes. (Postmodern fiction and metafiction, I gather, aim to call attention to the falsity of these things, which is like selling liquor that perversely makes you more sober). ~ Tim Powers

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Brahman and I are buddies. ~ Stephen Beam

In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby. ~ Parul Wadhwa

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation. ~ Michael Dirda

The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics. ~ Will Self

You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to the foundation of one's soul and put back together. I want to know how you emerged from hell made of steel and fire. ~ Moriah Densley

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction. ~ Bonnie Jo Campbell

If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole. ~ George Orwell

And still, even when he'd told her how he felt about her, and that he wanted their fake relationship to be real, she'd held herself back out of fear that their friends-to-lovers story was too good to be anything but fiction. ~ Bella Andre