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		Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mary MacLane 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vince Vaughn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. L. Mencken 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Saint-John Perse 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maggie Stiefvater 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patricia Richardson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Zipes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Camilla Lackberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Flannery O'Connor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sabine Baring-Gould 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Said Nursi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Hawkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Gopnik 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I used to wrestle professionally, I preferred being the bad guy known as 'The Heel;' you would get to 'work the crowd,' getting them to hate you and want to see you lose, while the good guy 'Babyface' would walk in, smile and shake hands with a few kids, and his acting job was done. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Conan Stevens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		..I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Anne Lamott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Kettering 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mary MacLane