Book Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Download Open image ““There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.”” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Good book Good books Truth Truths
“As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.” — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
“Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…” — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It’s ironic that they swear to tell the truth on a book brimming with so many fictions, myths and errors.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good. ” — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
