Art Quote by William Zinsser

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

— William Zinsser

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

— Danielle Trussoni

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able…

— Barack Obama

Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society…

— Paul Driessen

Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It…

— Max Nordau

Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material…

— Hilaire Belloc

The United States is imposing sanctions on individuals and companies working to advance Iran's ballistic missile program, and we are going to remain vigilant…

— Barack Obama

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

— Ian Mckellen

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values…

— Stephen Harper

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating…

— John Stott

What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that…

— B. C. Forbes