Quotes About Verisimilitude

#1. Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction!

Sha Li

#2. He shook his head,'Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.'
'Is that still your favourite word?' asked Isola interestedly, 'I like "verisimilitude". Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is "cellar door",

Allyse Near

#3. The confusing signals, the impurity of the signal, gives you verisimilitude, as when you attend a funeral and notice that it's being poorly done.

Donald Barthelme

#4. For complexity does not inevitably heighten a story's verisimilitude, or its power to convince; sometimes simplicity and economy make for a more vigorous exposition, propelling the drama forward.

Yan Lianke

#5. The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with ... stream of consciousness, as it's called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past.

Will Self

#6. Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

Georges Braque

#7. We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

Scott Derrickson

#8. Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what a cop's world is like. But in truth that world is seldom revealed with anything approaching verisimilitude. We get it with The Wagon.

Daniel Horan

#9. But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.

Aldous Huxley

#10. This means that "meeting the current toward elimination of names is the counter current of late development, which . . . gave to simplified matter the verisimilitude of proper names.

Richard Bauckham

#11. This
is another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is not
in the least an essential element of verity.

George MacDonald

#12. The devil is the most stubborn verisimilitude on earth!

Stefan Emunds

#13. There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude

Thornton Wilder

#14. What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.

Joseph Conrad

#15. When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.

Jean Baudrillard

#16. Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

W.S. Gilbert

#17. Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chilly waters of verisimilitude, no matter how often it is demonstrated that photographs can and do lie.

Lucy R. Lippard

#18. In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.

Tim O'Brien

#19. I am not concerned with verisimilitude ... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself.

Tracey Moffatt

#20. This phrase did not have the ring of verisimilitude because I am famously bad at math. If I'm in charge of tipping at a restaurant, the waiter will either fall to his knees in gratitude or slash my tires. There ain't no Mr. In Between.

Celia Rivenbark

#21. VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

Richard Donner

#22. Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

Russell Smith

#23. Nowhere in particular on the way from A to Z. Or say for verisimilitude the Balloygan Road. That dear old back road. Somewhere on the Ballyogan Road in lieu of nowhere in particular. Where no truck anymore. Somewhere on the Ballyogan Road on the way from A to Z.

Samuel Beckett

#24. I do crazy amounts of research. I want this stuff to 'work,' so to speak. I need to be, at least to me, believable - because if I feel - if I cannot invest some element of verisimilitude, the reader is absolutely not going to buy in.

Greg Rucka

#25. It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

Tom Wolfe

#26. Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

Louis Auchincloss

#27. You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

David Simon

#28. When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That's when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.

Rani Mukerji

#29. The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

Fulton J. Sheen

#30. If you don't keep your country clean, nobody can do that for you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.

Gerard Houllier

#32. No one should have to grieve alone ...

William Wendt

#33. I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

Lou Gerstner

#34. Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

Erica Jong