Quote by Sarah Manguso Download Open image ““Biographies should also contain the events that failed to foreshadow.”” — Sarah Manguso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.” — Deana J. Driver Copy Share Image
“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.” — Judith Geary Copy Share Image
“Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Don’t just make your life a documentary of compromised relationships rather live notorious, fearless and scandalous life to be part of others biographies.” — AnkitMishra Copy Share Image
“Because you don’t live in a book. Nobody does, silly. Things never happen the way they would in a book. There isn’t foreshadowing.” — Laurel Snyder Copy Share Image
“Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really… — Dawn Huntsman Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.” — Peggy Ullman Bell Copy Share Image
“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both. — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from you.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“It’s impossible to fail if one doesn’t know how the end should look. And it’s impossible to succeed. But it’s possible to enjoy.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“ My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
The only thing I've consistently been interested in in the last twenty-five years is writing very short texts. That continues to interest me as… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“Like a vase, a heart breaks once. After that, it just yields to its flaws.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“Death will reveal what you otherwise would have finished. Also what you never would have finished. I found the notes for a book a… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
