Books Quote by Denise Mina Download Open image “Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.” — Denise Mina ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Enough Reader Sophisticated Truth
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming in either direction. Dropping forward at the waist Martin admitted that he was fucking himself up. Dr Leonowsky told him: hurting yourself is an articulation of self-disgust. It helps no one, prevents nothing. This wasn’t a glorious loss… — Denise Mina Copy Share
Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Bout a month ago. She came in Boxing Day but I put her out. She was begging people, not even tapping, but begging for drink.” “She can’t have been disrupting ye, surely?” asked Maureen. “See those old swines over there?” He gestured to his only customers. The old men heard him and their chat fell silent. The barman raised his… — Denise Mina Copy Share
I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper 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
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