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Honesty across memoir and fiction

These telling the truth quotes contrast memoir and fiction, noting readers often want to catch memoirists lying and novelists secretly practicing Honesty.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

Quotes by Tayari Jones

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Quotes by Philip Guedalla

Telling
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Nov 07, 2020

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Quotes by Peter Matthiessen

Nov 07, 2020

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Quotes by Malcolm Bradbury

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Nov 07, 2020

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

Quotes by Corey Clark

Nov 07, 2020

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Quotes by Anita Brookner

Others focus on nonfiction, describing the discipline of Expression under the constraint of staying strictly factual.

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