Novel Quote by A. N. Wilson Download Open image “I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.” — A. N. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Novel Objective truth People Persons Thinking Truth Writing
I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
“Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations'… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Holy hell, Trev! What kind of move was that?” Trevor leaned over her with a big smile on his face. “You really thought I… — Cecilia Aubrey & Chris Almeida Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image