“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

The past is obdurate.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.

Stranger than fiction is the fiction that you are a stranger to me.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

I live mostly within my own mind and what scares me is not knowing what is fact or fiction inside of it.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough.

People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.