Books Quote by Julian Barnes

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

— Julian Barnes

“It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage…

— 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

“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

“Fiction is better than Truth”

— Krishna Verma

“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what…

— George Orwell

“The best writings, like the best men, tell the truth.”

— Sophie Perinot

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Truth has the structure of a fiction.”

— Lacan

“It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.”

— psyche roxas-mendoza

“This is not a book of truth, but simply a book that attempts with as little bias as humanly possible, to understand truth. In…

— Abhijit Naskar