Balanced Quote by William Galston

“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

Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure…

— Thomas a Kempis

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any…

— Julian Barnes

“There's a part of a book that never lies. A writer puts his soul into a book. Every word is two sides of a…

— Sam Mills Black Out

“This is not a book of truth, but simply a book that attempts with as little bias as humanly possible, to understand truth. In…

— Abhijit Naskar

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.”

— J.G. Ballard

“Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet”

— Andreï Makine

“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

— Steve Berry