I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that…

“I just don’t like people taking liberties.” “None taken. Yet,” he said, smirking. “But feel free to overstep as many boundaries as you like…

— Callie Hart

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

— E. P. Thompson

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

— Norman O. Brown

“As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.”

— Alison Croggon

The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.

— John Updike

It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it…

— John Ruskin

“As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the…

— Alberto Manguel

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through…

— Alberto Manguel

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

— Kaija Saariaho

It is never permissible to say, I say.

— Suzanne Curchod

“Everything is permissible'—but not everything is beneficial” (1 Corinthians 10:23).”

— Lysa TerKeurst

Everything is true-Everything is permissible!

— Hassan-i Sabbah

All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.

— Johnny Hunt