Quote by Laurent Binet Download Open image ““That scene, like the one before it, is perfectly believable and totally made up”” — Laurent Binet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was better than… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of a revelation.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?” — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“It was one of those moments when you wonder whether there is some kind of big misunderstanding and really this is all just a… — Chris Beckett Copy Share Image
“I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was hard to believe that once upon a time, she had been afraid of pretend things. The real world was pretty darn scary… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
“But why this obsession with what's actually true, the real, all that? Can't you accept that our lives are always part fiction?” — Bhaskar Ghose Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I'll watch a movie all over again to recapture that feeling of being inside something real.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed.” — Nicole Sobon Copy Share Image
“We always fail to talk about love’. He quickly scans the text – it’s about Stendhal. Simon is moved by the thought of Barthes… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“Eco listens with interest to the story of a lost manuscript for which people are being killed. He sees a man walk past holding… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“I’m fighting a losing battle. I can’t tell this story the way it should be told. This whole hotchpotch of characters, events, dates, and… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you ruled the world?” The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: “Even grammar?” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“Memory is of no use to the remembered, only to those who remember. We build ourselves with memory and console ourselves with memory.” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, after all, there is a bit of justice in this mean, cruel world.” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism. — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“As Umberto Eco might say: for communicating, language is perfect; there could be nothing better. And yet, language doesn’t say everything. The body speaks,… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: “This is as amusing as a novel.” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
