Books Quote by Walter Moers Download Open image ““An author owes a duty to the truth.”” — Walter Moers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Responsibility Truth
“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will? — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“The truth ? the truth my dear Ashely is a luxury available only to those who are not involved in its consequences ” — Morris West Copy Share Image
“Truth is the aim of story. And though we must take into account the human author’s subjectivity and personal slant, the best authors are… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.” — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.” — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“Da ist auch noch ein anderer Geruch in der Luft, der Geruch von Feuern, die in der Ferne brennen, mit einem Hauch Zimt darin… — Walter Moers 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
