Urban Fiction Quotes

What I've learned is, what people want is to tell someone, anyone, their problems. ~ Danila Botha

Secret Saturdays ought to be required reading at middle schools everywhere. Maldonado gives us both voice and heart. His young characters navigate a challenging world with endearing earnestness, lively style, and a heartening desire for true friendship and dignity. ~ E.R. Frank

Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond. ~ Conrad Brooks

Ava glanced over at Napoleon, who was walking back toward them. She smirked at Juliet and said, "Sweetie, you are *not* the one. ~ Jay Fingers

What does it take to get you on board with building this district to mirror Coral Gables or the Hamptons? ~ Thomas Barr Jr.

We stared at each other in silence until she looked away. I won. I always won, because I had my daddy's eyes and she could only stare for so long, without looking away. I had my own ways of getting to Baby-Sweet. ~ Jaguar Jonez

Keep The Drama In Your Books, Not Your Life." - The Cartel Publications. ~ T. Styles

I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson! ~ Donald Goines

He should make you smile...always...and when he makes you cry it should be out of passion! ‪ ~ Brooklyn June

For anyone with a library in their head and love in their heart, ~ Kevin Ansbro

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen. ~ Terry Carr

She had traveled to more cities, had experienced more scenes, than anyone she knew, and still she had come away from it all with only an abysmal sense of dissatisfaction. When would it all begin, the good part of this story she was living? When would she find her destiny, her purpose? When would she have the control her mother wielded, the drive her father possessed? When would she cease living the same wretched days over and over? Why was she still feeling empty and meaningless? Why - after all this time - did her purpose in life still escape her? ~ H.L. Sudler

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ~ John Dalton

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. ~ Ellen Potter

I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserted in special places during conversations, all are passed along to the next heir. ~ Edwidge Danticat

I always prefer fiction. Anything else feels like homework. ~ AnnaLisa Grant

Life is too short to be mad for too long. ~ Judith L. Harper

I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts. ~ Nina Hagen

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers. ~ Kami Garcia

Don't leave home without your Wizer ... it's an ugly world out there ~ Clyde DeSouza

When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story. ~ Geraldine Brooks

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ~ Richard Schickel

It is okay for your weakness to be exposed to the light. The light is there because your weakness doesn't serve you anymore. You are brave and you are letting it go… ~ Charlena E. Jackson

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we're deprived of something meaningful. ~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom. ~ Gregory Benford

I want to be walking down this street with Mama, headed where we're headed. But her hand in mine makes me feel like I'm not alone in this world where you can't always see what's in front of you. ~ Susan Meissner

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child. ~ E. M. Forster

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.
In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world. ~ Jo Walton

Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it ~ Barry A. Whittingham

The law isn't merciful. ~ Cate Campbell Beatty

Sylvia grabs my sleeve. "He's a looker."
"I know. The problem is, he knows it, too. ~ Simone Elkeles

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family. ~ Urban Meyer

Cozy was a fun night by a fireplace with marshmallows. Cozy was a grandmother knitting Christmas sweaters. Cozy was new puppies in a litter. Cozy was not what he had in mind to do in that tent with Tes. ~ Susannah Scott

Duke to Michel: I'm fairly certain that even if
you'd struggle in a quiz against a pigeon, you are capable enough of opening doors. ~ Elias Zapple

Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable. ~ Clive Barker

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives ~ Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does. ~ Neil Gaiman

Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers? ~ S.A. Tawks

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. ~ Rudyard Kipling

Oh, Moon, upon me shine-
Give back his life, instead take mine.
Send back his heart, return his breath.
Please release him from his death.
Give back his eyes, bring back his voice.
I willingly have made this choice.
Hand back his plans, restore his mind,
I willingly grant you mine.
Oh, Moon, Oh, Stars, upon me glow-
Tell the river to let go. ~ Ann M. Noser From HOW TO DATE DEAD GUYS

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality. ~ Geoff Mulgan

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.
~ Nicola Chiaromonte

Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it. Furthermore, the idea underlying it shows that it is ours, ours, something that belongs to us alone and that is our own property, our own national 'new word'or, at any rate, the beginning of it. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's not dystopia to think history will repeat itself. ~ Mord McGhee

You're insane."

"It'll work."

"Which does not alter the fact that you are insane. ~ G.S. Jennsen