Top 200 Fiction Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

— Dr. Seuss

152. “A word after a word after a word is power.”

— Margaret Atwood

153. “Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

— Harper Lee

154. “Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”

— Paulo Coelho

155. “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

— Charles Addams

156. “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”

— Terry Pratchett

157. “For the night is dark and full of terrors.”

— George R.R. Martin

158. “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

159. “Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”

— William Shakespeare

160. “Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ’it doesn’t matter.”

— Lewis Carroll

161. “I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”

— Stephen King

162. “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”

— William Shakespeare

163. “All great and precious things are lonely.”

— John Steinbeck

164. “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”

— Neil Gaiman

165. “I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”

— Nicholas Sparks

166. “The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

167. “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

— Philip José Farmer

168. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

— Suzanne Collins

169. “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

— Aldous Huxley

170. “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

171. “That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”

— John Green

172. “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

— Mark Twain

173. “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

174. “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

175. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

176. “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

— William Shakespeare

177. “Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

178. “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

— Terry Pratchett

179. “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”

— J.K. Rowling

180. “There is no beauty without some strangeness.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

181. “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

— J.K. Rowling

182. “That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

183. “For you, a thousand times over.”

— Khaled Hosseini

184. “I will take what is mine with fire and blood.”

— George R.R. Martin

185. “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

— Jane Austen

186. “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”

— Albert Camus

187. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

— Charlotte Brontë

188. “There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.”

— William Shakespeare

189. “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

190. “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”

— Terry Pratchett

191. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

192. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac

193. “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”

— François Rabelais

194. “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”

— Virginia Woolf

195. “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

— Franz Kafka

196. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

— William Faulkner

197. “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

198. “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.”

— Douglas Adams

199. “Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.”

— Dr. Seuss

200. “You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

— Jodi Picoult