Books Quote by Mark Twain

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not…

— Mark Twain

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumbles in the…

— Roshani Chokshi

“Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet”

— Andreï Makine

“...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.”

— Alison Croggon

“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie. If he needs me to believe…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.”

— Aldo Schiavone

“If the truth should be complex and somewhat disillusioning, it would still not be a merit to substitute for it some more dramatic and…

— Clarence Irving Lewis

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda

“We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten.”

— Marcel Proust

“I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round the truth…

— Ursula K. Le Guin