Dear Quote by Lloyd Alexander Download Open image “If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?” — Lloyd Alexander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dear Facts Storyteller Truth Worried Writing
He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up. — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth." Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“When a honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
“The difference between what he had been then and what he now was, was enormous...Then he was free and fearless...now he felt himself caught in the meshes of a stupid, empty, valueless, frivolous life...He remembered how proud he was at one time of his straightforwardness, how he had made a rule of always speaking the truth...and he was now sunk… — Leo Tolstoy Ressurrection Copy Share
The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“There are heroes and heroes. I don't deny he's acted bravely on occasion. He's fought beside Lord Gwydion and been proud of himself as… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter." "It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Forgive me…I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and adult literature… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Once," he added, "you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.” — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share Image
You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image