#Fiction

"Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all."

"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."

"As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist."

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

"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"

"...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102."

"This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking."

"Raven?'Yes?'What do you believe in?'I believe in - finding out!"

"Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream."

"Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring."

"And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust."

"Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy."

"To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again.lines from Love Vs Destiny..."

"Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room."

"Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world."

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

"There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth."

"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."

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

"I feel ill,"[Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die."