Literary Fiction Authors Quotes

“Girls don’t like being called cute or adorable, so I guess we’re even,” Remy said and winked at Logan.”
― Hope Worthington, Shifting Moon: Shifting Moon Saga, Book 1

“Oliver, I don’t understand,” he said. “Why?”
“You know why.” I was done pretending otherwise.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Walking back in the lamp-stained dark, the duckboards greasy and glittering with frost, she wanted to sing, she wanted to scream, she wanted to make love to him, she wanted to die.”
― Lesley Glaister, Blasted Things

“I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I am able to see. It makes me grateful there is only so much I can see, and I am left mostly with questions. Grateful, also, that hope is not a reasonable thing. Though I have seen my share of darkness, I am spared perceiving much of it. And here is why I hope beyond a reasonable doubt: I think that as the darkness grows, it makes the dim lights that are left seem brighter. And the darker it gets, the brighter the light appears, until it is so luminous, eventually, even falling shadows are filled with it.”
― Brian K. Friesen, At the Waterline

“As with life, so with words.”
― Sid Gustafson, Horses They Rode

“There is never a need to dress up the truth. It is always the truth, naked.”
― Fidelis O Mkparu

“You are a wonderful, complex, f*cked-up mess,” you once said to me. Sometimes when you passed these judgements I would flinch, as if the words were darts or sharp tools piercing my skin.”
― Polly Hall, The Taxidermist's Lover

“Never be afraid of what people might think of your work. For every possible negative reaction, you will also receive a positive reaction. What really matters is what you think of your work.
Write! Write! Write!”
― Kennedy, Naomi, The Boy with the Best Laugh

“The day is windless. It’s not a joke. Life is not a joke.”
― David Szalay, All That Man Is

“There are no ‘happy’ endings. The words contradict each other.”
― Adil Alzarooni, The Red Island: The Gatekeeper