Biographical Fiction Quotes

“It is true we enjoy self-government, but we live in fear. We find ourselves in the paw of a lion. Convenience may induce him to crush us, and with a faint struggle, we may cease to be.”
― Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

“I regained consciousness after a big night at the Cock and Bull Inn, or it could’ve been The Weasel’s Way or The Badger’s Breath, who knows with these weird English pub names. Anyway, it was somewhere near The Pig and Whistle. Not far up from the Scotsman’s Kilt.”
― Harry F. MacDonald, Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll

“I had met Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol, previously in Spain in the company of his pet anteater and a glamorous model called Mercedes Benz.”
― Harry F. MacDonald, Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll

“It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.”
― Bradley Steffens, The Prisoner of Al Hakim

“There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces.”
― Noelle Oxenhandler, The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire

“I’m my own woman and my choices are my own — even if they are the wrong ones.”
― Gillie Basson, Undefeated: A Historical Novel Inspired by the World's First Female Bare-Knuckle Fighter

“Outside, the sweet smell of freshly cut alfalfa hay was a welcome change from the odours of sweat and cheap cologne on the dance floor.”
― Diana Stevan, Lilacs in the Dust Bowl

“It blew with a rustling noise, as if all the demons had sprung from hell and decided to release a raspy long sigh together.”
― Diana Stevan, Lilacs in the Dust Bowl

“She envisioned him walking through a blizzard, his head down, his moustache coated with ice, his frozen fingers gripping his bayonet.”
― Diana Stevan, Sunflowers Under Fire

“She understood that unrequited love could break a heart, but there was nothing she could do about his sorrow.”
― Diana Stevan, Sunflowers Under Fire

“Tramvayın geçtiği bazı caddeler o kadar dardı ki üzerindeki evlerin cumbalarına teğet geçerlerdi. Perdeleri sıkı sıkıya kapalı ve güneş ışığından mahrum kalmaya mahkûm bu evlerin mahremiyetleri Nigâr’ı endişelendirir, içeriyi görmeyeceğini bile bile kafasını diğer yöne çevirir, sanki böyle yapmakla onlara perdelerini açabilme özgürlüğünü vermiş gibi hissederdi.”
― Alev Gülsün, Perver Nigâr

“She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that don't suit her go out. Any details she wants to invent come in. She's saved the trouble of creating plot and characters, and she doesn't have to be accurate because it's only a novel, you know.”
― Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

“With Robert gone, I’ve decided to leave the fighting world and try to start afresh. If only a fresh start would present itself. The only thing fresh is the tankard of gin in front of me”.”
― Gillie Basson, Undefeated: A Historical Novel Inspired by the World's First Female Bare-Knuckle Fighter

“I like punching someone in the face. It’s a useful release from everything else. All my life, it seems, all I’ve known is fighting”
― Gillie Basson, Undefeated: A Historical Novel Inspired by the World's First Female Bare-Knuckle Fighter

“Warm, gentle winds blew and blew, and the loamy soil swirled playfully about before shifting, oh, so slightly. Then, little by little, piece by piece, remnants of the City were unearthed by curious people who had come from faraway lands. A stone tablet, a shard of pottery, portions of a shattered statue and pieces of beautifully painted tiles. A bust of a woman, who could she possibly be?”
― Natasha Rendell, Imagining Nefertiti