Saturday, June 26, 2010

Quote of the Day (Somerset Maugham, on Truth vs. Fiction)


“Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.”—W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook (1949)

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