Books Quote by Steve Bisley Download Open image “Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.” — Steve Bisley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Constrained Easier Memoir Novel Than Truth Writing You
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more. — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author… — Tayari Jones 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
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard… — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
I am a great observer of things, and I do it all the time. I store stuff; I use it as an actor; that… — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the… — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
I think if you hold your nerve and don't sell out and become something that you're not, you can go anywhere. You know, I… — Steve Bisley 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
