Implausibility Quotes

#1. All novels are impossible.
We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be if it were completely founded in reality.
I declare implausibility a must if the reader is not to be bored to tears.

Caitlin Williams

#2. I always tell my students that you can do anything you can get away with, that implausibility is a problem of style. If people bring issues of plausibility to bear on what you're doing, you're not doing it well enough.

Marilynne Robinson

#3. [Barack Obama failed to sell a health care reform plan to American voters] because the utter implausibility of its central promise - expanded coverage at lower cost - led voters to conclude that it would lead ultimately to more government, more taxes and more debt.

Charles Krauthammer

#4. One of the things that drive the various reductionist programs about mind, value, and meaning, in spite of their inherent implausibility, is the lack of any comprehensive alternative.

Thomas Nagel

#5. For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

John Updike

#6. Sometimes my doubt seems intuitive, but most likely it derives from an implausibility or a logical problem I may at first find difficult to identify and articulate. It is interesting to me to work through questions that arise in this way.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is.

Charlie Hunter

#8. Money is a very powerful thing, which you hardly notice when it goes right, but which can create havoc when it goes wrong.

Milton Friedman

#9. Maybe I could interest you in a Vodka sour instead. It causes the same effects as having a husband. First you get a rush of euphoria only to be replaced by regret in the morning.

Charity Parkerson

#10. I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

James Young

#11. I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

Nancy Pelosi

#12. I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.

Don Kardong