Books Quote by Louis Auchincloss Download Open image “Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.” — Louis Auchincloss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Enough Inspirational Littles Novel Truth
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird — Erik Meyer Copy Share Image
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life? — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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