Books Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.

— Primo Levi

“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I fear it is only getting worse. Each transmission of a quote can sometimes…

— Garson O'Toole

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that…

— Hesketh Pearson

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world…

— Hesketh Pearson

“Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.”

— Courtney Milan

“The truth and reality are what I always write in my books, essays, and quotes; that I may err is possible, but it will…

— Ingrid Holm-Garibay

“We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need…

— Walter Kirn

“[An example of misattribution:] If you don’t know the source of a quote, you can always make it sound better by attributing it to…

— Jakub Marian

The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine.

— Abraham Lincoln