Agendas Quote by Wallace Stegner Download Open image “In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.” — Wallace Stegner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agendas Fiction Should Should have Telling the truth Thinking Truth
It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda. — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories. — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
fiction is founded on truth…unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Agendas in general don't work. The agenda is a thing that is perpetually destroyed. But through that destruction, something really interesting comes up. — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. —” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's… — Allen West Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes.… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda. — Damian Green Copy Share Image
There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world. — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
