#Fiction

"Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend."

"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."

"God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live."

"As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author."

"If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again."

"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."

"We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love."

"So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.--Egwene al'Vere"

"If I'd had enough breath, I would have screamed, both at the sensation and at the sheer pettiness of the bastard who wouldn't allow me even a tiny chance of escape."

"His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it."

"I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story."

"It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction."

"I can't go on, I'll go on."

"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."

"In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies."

"Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it."

"If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same."

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

"A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written."

"Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall."