Art Quote by D.H. Lawrence

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

— D. H. Lawrence

“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

— D.H. Lawrence

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other…

— Anonymous

“Every story instructs. The teller ignores this truth at peril.”

— Steven Erikson

“A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.”

— Anonymous

“The teller has no responsibility to make the listener believe in the truth. Each must take the words and make them their own. No…

— Sara Gran

“People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Never trust a writer. They are too good at making Stories.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller.”

— Witi Ihimaera

“Remember that what you are told is really threefold: shaped by the teller, reshaped by the listener, concealed from both by the dead man…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“And sometimes when the story ends Only the teller's left to make amends.”

— Alex Bledsoe

“When I hear a critic speaking of an author’s sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool”

— Vladimir Nabokov