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The child came to a stop beside her mother and stared up at her face as if she had never seen it before. It was the face of the new misery she felt, but on her mother it looked old and it looked as if it might have belonged to anybody, a Negro or a European or to Powell himself. The child turned her head quickly, and past the Negroe's ambling figures she could see the column of smoke rising and widening unchecked inside the granite line of trees. She stood taut, listening, and could just catch in the distance a few wild high shrieks of joy as if the prophets were dancing in the fiery furnace, in the circle the angel had cleared for them. ~ Flannery O'Connor
Literature Fiction quotes by Flannery O'Connor
The long rays of sun stretched across the street and touched the twisted mabati tin roofs of the shops, creating a soft light that dulled the dust and rust, making them look almost beautiful. ~ Stanley Gazemba (Bahati Books)
Literature Fiction quotes by Stanley Gazemba (Bahati Books)
Time will solve all the problems Chinese school graduates face. In our bilingual society, there are no more Chinese school graduates, only English school graduates who can speak Mandarin. These English school graduates probably can also read and write Chinese, but they did not go to a Chinese school, and they act and think differently from us. Drawing a line between us, they would never say they graduated from a Chinese school, because former Chinese school graduates, that is, the vanishing group of people that includes us, are second-class citizens. They, on the other hand, belong to the first class, the Chinese elite, English school graduates who are fluent in Chinese. ~ Yeng Pway Ngon
Literature Fiction quotes by Yeng Pway Ngon
Everyone lives by selling something. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Literature Fiction quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
There's an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how they were written to allow primary emotion, elemental emotion, to matter enormously but to give the thing an extraordinary flow so you don't notice at what point that you're actually overwhelmed by this. There's no showiness, at all. It's the opposite of showiness. I think, if it was a painting, it could be very grey abstract, almost, with some lines and very, very beautiful. But you wouldn't have a notion of where the beauty was.
(Talking about the short stories of Alistair MacLeod, who he discovered while working on The Modern Library.) ~ Colm Toibin
Literature Fiction quotes by Colm Toibin
Capital dictates the fate of humanity. ~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Literature Fiction quotes by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Science fiction is the very literature of change. ~ Frederik Pohl
Literature Fiction quotes by Frederik Pohl
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. ~ Ralph Ellison
Literature Fiction quotes by Ralph Ellison
Science Fiction is the jazz of literature. ~ David Brin
Literature Fiction quotes by David Brin
You may ask, why not simply call this literature Christian? Unfortunately, the word Christian is no longer reliable. It has come to mean anyone with a golden heart. And a golden heart would be a positive interference in the writing of fiction. ~ Flannery O'Connor
Literature Fiction quotes by Flannery O'Connor
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. ~ Kathy Acker
Literature Fiction quotes by Kathy Acker
...Sigerius realized that every academic looked like every other academic."
- Bonita Avenue, p.49 ~ Peter Buwalda
Literature Fiction quotes by Peter Buwalda
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to. ~ Stephen King
Literature Fiction quotes by Stephen King
A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars. ~ Tim O'Brien
Literature Fiction quotes by Tim O'Brien
The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, ~ Michel Houellebecq
Literature Fiction quotes by Michel Houellebecq
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature ... Never again another seven-volume saga. ~ George R R Martin
Literature Fiction quotes by George R R Martin
Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams. ~ Freeman Dyson
Literature Fiction quotes by Freeman Dyson
And speaking of this wonderful machine:
[840] I'm puzzled by the difference between
Two methods of composing: A, the kind Which goes on solely in the poet's mind,
A testing of performing words, while he
Is soaping a third time one leg, and B,
The other kind, much more decorous, when
He's in his study writing with a pen. In method B the hand supports the thought,
The abstract battle is concretely fought.
The pen stops in mid-air, then swoops to bar
[850] A canceled sunset or restore a star,
And thus it physically guides the phrase
Toward faint daylight through the inky maze.
But method A is agony! The brain
Is soon enclosed in a steel cap of pain.
A muse in overalls directs the drill Which grinds and which no effort of the will
Can interrupt, while the automaton
Is taking off what he has just put on Or walking briskly to the corner store [860] To buy the paper he has read before. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
Literature Fiction quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
He wants your soul' from Mina Harker: The Curse of the Vampire ~ Louise Lake
Literature Fiction quotes by Louise Lake
On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I'll bring Graham Greene's The Quiet American if I'm going to Vietnam. It's good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive. ~ Anthony Bourdain
Literature Fiction quotes by Anthony Bourdain
To become a 'good reader' one must give oneself over to a regime of concentrated pleasure. One does not set out to read a book a day (there is no necessary pleasure in that) but may spend two or three years on one book [. . .], read only portions of another, devour a third at a single sitting. ~ Michael Schmidt
Literature Fiction quotes by Michael Schmidt
The Line makes itself felt,
thro' some Energy unknown, ever are we haunted by that Edge so precise, so near. In the Dark, one never knows. Of course I am seeking the Warrior Path, imagining myself as heroick Scout. We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,
sound, sky, vegetation,
may have announced it. Perhaps 'tis the very deep sub-audible Hum of its Traffic that we feel with an equally undiscover'd part of the Sensorium,
does it lie but over the next Ridge? the one after that? We have mileage Estimates from Rangers and Runners, yet for as long as its Distance from the Post Mark'd West remains unmeasur'd, nor is yet recorded as Fact, may it remain, a-shimmer, among the few final Pages of its Life as Fiction. ~ Thomas Pynchon
Literature Fiction quotes by Thomas Pynchon
Everybody wants to own the end of the world. ~ Don DeLillo
Literature Fiction quotes by Don DeLillo
Most people's lives were stories with mysterious endings. Mine was a story with a beginning I could never make sense of. It was like fifty different unrelated strands I couldn't weave into a solid crystal. ~ Lindsay A. Franklin
Literature Fiction quotes by Lindsay A. Franklin
It's not that I'm apolitical ... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add. ~ Susan Isaacs
Literature Fiction quotes by Susan Isaacs
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in "2001: A Space Odyssey,' but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn't include a single shot simply to keep our attention. He reduces each scene to its essence, and leaves it on screen long enough for us to contemplate it, to inhabit it in our imaginations. Alone among science-fiction movies, "2001' is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our awe. ~ Roger Ebert
Literature Fiction quotes by Roger Ebert
Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries. ~ Tim O'Brien
Literature Fiction quotes by Tim O'Brien
In the age of globalization - an ad hoc, temp-job, fiercely competitive age - hope is not a fiction. ~ Katherine Boo
Literature Fiction quotes by Katherine Boo
You will do yourself a disservice if you confine your reading to the rising star whose six-figure, two-book contract might seem to indicate where your own work should be heading. I'm not saying you shouldn't read such writers, some of whom are excellent and deserving of celebrity. I'm only pointing out that they represent the dot at the end of the long, glorious, complex sentence in which literature has been written. ~ Francine Prose
Literature Fiction quotes by Francine Prose
I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone else know more about English Literature than me. So calm yourself, Elfish, and let an expert take over. ~ Martin Millar
Literature Fiction quotes by Martin Millar
A way a lone a last a loved a long the - ~ James Joyce
Literature Fiction quotes by James Joyce
Books are too personal as objects to be displayed, in case a potential buyer is put off by your taste for Nietzsche or Marian Keyes. You would not display the contents of your knicker and sock drawer, or your bathroom cabinet with its face creams and cough remedies, so why put off potential buyers with your taste in literature? ~ Linda Grant
Literature Fiction quotes by Linda Grant
Your daughter is gay? Where are all these gay people coming from? Gay friends. Gay daughters of friends. Gay sisters-in-law. Gay suspects. I ask one guy for a kiss and suddenly I'm living in Ancient Greece. ~ Dani Alexander
Literature Fiction quotes by Dani Alexander
The dead don't die. They look on and help. ~ D.H. Lawrence
Literature Fiction quotes by D.H. Lawrence
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. ~ Tom Waits
Literature Fiction quotes by Tom Waits
My mind is traumatized. My body is weak. Understanding isn't an option anymore. ~ Charlena E. Jackson
Literature Fiction quotes by Charlena E.  Jackson
Perfect love, like perfect partner does not exist. We create our own perfect love. If you care to know, a a good partner is like a construction engineer. To build the kind of house he want, he must pick the material that best suits his needs and maybe his wallet too. ~ Augustine Sam
Literature Fiction quotes by Augustine Sam
Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. ~ Susannah Mansfield
Literature Fiction quotes by Susannah Mansfield
That bastard tried to murder my son. He can spend the rest of his rotten, deceitful life in a prison cell. But he's not the ultimate prize. I won't rest until both the President and Attorney General of the United States are impeached, convicted, and thrown in a prison cell. ~ Mark M. Bello
Literature Fiction quotes by Mark M. Bello
It is practical, but that doesn't mean it's right. ~ Pittacus Lore
Literature Fiction quotes by Pittacus Lore
In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature. ~ Abdourahman A. Waberi
Literature Fiction quotes by Abdourahman A. Waberi
My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams ~ Noorilhuda
Literature Fiction quotes by Noorilhuda
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Literature Fiction quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
I conclude, at the beginning of the day, it is all about the choices I make. It is about what I am willing to sacrifice - one thing I do know, I am not willing, and I do not want to sacrifice my life for anyone, not even for you."
~Love is respect ♥~ ~ Charlena E. Jackson
Literature Fiction quotes by Charlena E.  Jackson
It's a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief. ~ Mitch Michaelson
Literature Fiction quotes by Mitch Michaelson
You must never stay at the station where you feel unhappy! Unhappiness combined with inaction always creates deeper unhappiness! The solution is very simple: Leave the station; trust the motion because only motion will take you to the new stations! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Literature Fiction quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
But before either of them could move a sudden blast of energy shattered the car's rear window, sending glass fragments soaring through the morning air in a lethal wave of sparkling terror. ~ Marcha A. Fox
Literature Fiction quotes by Marcha A. Fox
You're an incredible woman, Lela. I would battle a thousand Terrademons to reach your heart. But I cannot challenge or defeat an enemy that's already dead. I cannot fight for a heart that doesn't want to be won. ~ N.D. Jones
Literature Fiction quotes by N.D. Jones
Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature. ~ Dimitri Verhulst
Literature Fiction quotes by Dimitri Verhulst
I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, and a made-up story was called ficton. Auntie May said a made-up story is a bit like telling lies, only the people who read them knew that already and so it didn't matter ~ Rebecca Lloyd
Literature Fiction quotes by Rebecca Lloyd
A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss? ~ Mary Papas
Literature Fiction quotes by Mary Papas
Let the lady lead! ~ Regena Bryant
Literature Fiction quotes by Regena Bryant
One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing nothing about literature, would place a price on the books. (about secondhand literature book) ~ Murzban F. Shroff
Literature Fiction quotes by Murzban F. Shroff
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