Assemblage Quote by Julian Barnes

“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any…

— Julian Barnes

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a…

— Julian Barnes

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation.…

— Susan Sontag

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

— Gao Xingjian

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a…

— Orhan Pamuk

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

— Anais Nin

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

— Paul de Man