Quote by John Grisham

“Rumor sometimes follows a more precise logic than fact, and fact more than rumor is apt to have a lie in it somewhere.”

— Yukio Mishima

“They spread rumors. Some true. Some not true. Unfortunately, the truth doesn’t matter once people start talking.”

— Katie McGarry

“If rumor really has it, and that rumor fails cease, then it was never a rumor.”

— V.R. Avent

“People always believe the worst, even when rumors might later be proved false.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“A rumor started a reputation that other people believed in and reacted to. And sometimes a rumor has a snowball effect. A rumor, is…

— Jay Asher

“And naturally, when you have one rumor, it buds little extra rumors. Just for the fun of it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The trouble with rumors is you never know what to believe.”

— M. L. Forman

“There were rumours and counter­rumours. There were rumours that might have been true, and truths that ought to have been just rumours.”

— Arundhati Roy

“At any rate it seems unlikely that there is any truth in the rumour as I have just this moment invented it.”

— Auberon Waugh

“It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact.…

— Joshua Ferris

“Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.”

— Greg Iles

“Rumors are as important as anything. Even if they’re not true, they end up turning people into who they are.”

— Aaron Starmer