Quotes About Author

Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.

I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious.

The truth is, I was always picky anyway.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

People think I'm into positive thinking. I'm not a positive thinking guy. I'm into the truth. I'm a hunter of human excellence.

Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.