"Truth is always duller than fiction."

-- Piers Paul Read

#Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these things - which I didn't realize I was doing - but I was storing them all in an attic in my mind somewhere. And when it was time to sit down and write songs, when I reached into the attic to see what I was gonna write about, that's what was there.”
“I fight on. I fight to win.”
“What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?”
“As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”
“A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”
“Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.”
“She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.”

Source : Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

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