“Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.” WorldWritingBookFactsNovelDoubtReadyReaderAssumingPreparedNonfictionBe PreparedLegion Book:High Tide in Tucson Source: High Tide in Tucson
“The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.” ThinkingBookFactsAgeAttentionAssumingNovelistsThis Day Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.” PeopleMayFactsLostNationsInternetAssumingCriticalRelyRumorFacilityPrintedWikipedia Author:Ben Mezrich
“We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.” NeedsEndsFactsWishCan DoRiskAssumingPossessionSugarInsectsAssuranceSilent SpringControllersSugar Coating Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“It might be comforting to assume that intolerance is an aberration within Islam but discrimination against Christians or any other non-Muslim is in fact integral to orthodox Muslim teaching, and the more profound issue to the serious-minded is not the existence of sectarianism but its extent.” FactsMightChristianExistenceIssuesTeachingSeriousAssumingProfoundIslamDiscriminationOrthodoxIntoleranceComfortingSectarianismAberration Author:Michael Coren
“No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.” PeopleArtFactsLanguageAssumingVisualsBetray Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.” IfsThinkingYearsFactsMistakeTraditionAssumingWesternNationalismObserversKoreanConfucian Author:Brian Reynolds Myers
“Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.” PersonsSoulFactsSufferingNaturalFailingEffectsTreatsAssumingTendenciesMisfortunesUnfortunateCatastropheVocation Book:War and the Iliad Source: War and the Iliad
“At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.” PeopleEnoughCharacterFactsStrongLibertyRootsAimAssumingCourageousGood EnoughAssaultStrong EnoughNot Good Enough Author:Alan Keyes