Verisimilitude Quotes
- What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer… — Joseph Conrad
- Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — W. S. Gilbert
- The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his… — Paramahansa Yogananda
- Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that. — Louis Auchincloss
- A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have… — S. S. Van Dine
- VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth) — Richard Donner
- It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it… — Tom Wolfe
- Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. — Russell Smith