Candor Quote by Wilfrid Sheed Download Open image “Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.” — Wilfrid Sheed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Candor Inspirational Life Love Strategy Writing
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“The inexperienced reader wants the essentially familiar combined with superficial novelty. Each story must have a slightly new setting or twist or "gimmick," though… — Laurence Perrine Copy Share Image
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine the finest characters. They teach us to think ourselves into other men's places. Thus we acquire a taste for change. The personality becomes dissolved in pleasing figments of imagination. The reader learns to understand every point… — Elias Canetti Copy Share
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.” — James Van Pelt Copy Share Image
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
“as only an insider can, and he brings that expertise to his prose, creating one of the most truthful, accurate, and tension-filled suspense novels… — Garret Holms Copy Share Image
For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the "typical liberal" - as it might be announcing a… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share
For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine." — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
“I struggle to keep my hard, expressionless mask in place. The doctor's most powerful weapon has always been his particular brand of brutal honesty.… — Cristin Terrill Copy Share Image
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With warmth and… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now… — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she'd be part of a friendship in which she… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
