Quote by John Gardner Download Open image ““Only very odd people don’t realize that truth-telling is always a relative value.”” — John Gardner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It's odd, though, what makes you think about the truth. It's so rarely involved in the events of your life. I quit thinking about… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“And what’s true sometimes isn’t nearly as important as what people believe to be true.” — John G. Hemry Copy Share Image
“Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” — Thomas Berger Copy Share Image
“That is because most people believe not so much in truth as in things they wish were the truth.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Somehow I feel that a person who thinks he has discovered the absolute truth will not be someone I know.” — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how easy the truth is to accept...No matter how strange.” — KC Randall Copy Share Image
“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“They only think they think. No total vision, total system, merely schemes with a vague family resemblance, no more identity than bridges and, say,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Except in stock locutions, such as "You were paid yesterday," "The Germans were defeated," or "The project was abandoned," the passive voice is virtually… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went to a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“the chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“There seems little or no hope for the adult writer who produces sentences like these: "Her cheeks were thick and smooth and held a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“In any long fiction, Henry James remarked, use of the first-person point of view is barbaric. James may go too far, but his point… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know — John Gardner Copy Share Image
A nation that values bad philosophy above good plumbing will have neither good philosophy nor good plumbing — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
