Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about the public.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The noblest motive is the public good.”

— Virgil

“words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined…

— Charlotte Brontë

“That is not necessarily bad … but it is limiting. The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale…

— Stephen King

“But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.”

— Herman Melville

“However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”

— Thomas Paine

“The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer’s own experience.”

— John Steinbeck

“Their pretensions are naked and vulnerable and for that reason, to me at least, rather charming.”

— Julian Fellowes

“The simple, sober truth has no chance whatever of being listened to, and it’s only by volume of shouting that the ear of the…

— George Gissing

“There will always be a temptation to tell a neat story that makes everything sensible and logical and that suggests why the deserving succeeded…

— Philip M. Rosenzweig

“A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world.”

— Jonathan Auxier