Believe Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe, and they…

— Iris Murdoch

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

— Gloria Steinem

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

— Janette Rallison

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

“It is through fiction that we learn not to believe everything we read in print.”

— Ann Mullen

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's…

— Charles de Lint

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

— Libba Bray