Truth Quote by Steve Toltz Download Open image “I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.” — Steve Toltz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Truth Truthful Writing
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. — Nadine Gordimer 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
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it. — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.” — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“The problem is most of the time when God’s supposed to be the hero, he comes across as the villain. I mean, look at what he did to Lot’s wife. What kind of divine being turns a man’s wife into a pillar of salt? What was her crime? Turning her head? You have to admit this is a God hopelessly… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these crazy experiences and jobs in my life, but I never really write about them because I've already told them as stories to friends. For me, the process of writing is the process of invention. But the hospital story… — Steve Toltz Copy Share
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy,… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly communicate it. Chaos is the one truth that narrative must always betray, for in the creation of its delicate structures that reveal many truths about life, the portion of truth that has to do with incoherence… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
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