Authenticity Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“Our capacity for self-delusion appears almost infinite.”

— John Baxter

“No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence”

— Mazigh Buzakhar

“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of this argument,…

— Ann Patchett

“The human capacity for self-delusion is limitless”

— Sarah Fine

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of…

— H. L. Mencken

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield…

— Henry James

“All writing is rubbish. People who try to free themselves from what is vague in order to state precisely whatever is going on in…

— Antonin Artaud

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

— John Steinbeck

You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Yes, we have much to be seriously concerned about, much that needs to be corrected, improved, or dispensed with. But the vitality and creative…

— David McCullough

Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands…

— Amitava Kumar