“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.”
Val Edward Simone
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“When we as writers take our fears, beliefs, imaginations, and research and offer them up for the Lord to use, we are changed, and our fiction carries the power of truth and the fingerprints of our God on every page.”
Amy Wallace
“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion.”
Cyril Connolly
“We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...”
Bernhard Schlink
“Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.”
Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.”
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Here and Now: Living in the Spirit