Books Quote by Tony Blankley Download Open image “A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.” — Tony Blankley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Honest Honest person Memoir Persons Political
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
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl 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
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden 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
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity. — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
It may not be fair, but it's true that in politics - in TV broadcasting, in any public figure - people pay attention to… — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice… — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
The fact is that we do pay attention. I think that it's unfortunately the case, whether you're a man or woman and you're running… — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's… — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either. — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and constitutional limitations… — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
Starting in 1994, with the Republican election of Congress, I think [Rush] Limbaugh made a difference in electing the Republican majority. In the following… — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth. — Tony Blankley 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