Hemingway on verity - "That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”Just like the notion of rhythm, we need to take our idea of what is verity in our work and go over every inch of it to see where we have gone off the truth track and on to deception. But, you scream, we make up ALL of it! No, you don't. You don't make up the truth of it. Every story has its own world with absolute reality in it. Even if you write fantasy or science fiction, your world has its verity. It is true to itself and you must make sure all of it is within that consistent truth.
Here is the Hemingway quote I was initially looking for-
and here is Mr. Wilde on verity -"I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." A Moveable Feast, Hemingway
"The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them." Oscar Wilde
9 comments:
Great quotations and good point on truth and writing. :)
I like that.... "every story has it's own world."
Manzanita
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Very powerful. I love those quotes. Posts like these make me proud to be a writer.
I love quotations these are very good.
Yvonne.
Truth is so important. When I'm reading I need to feel that everything I'm reading is absolutely real. If I don't feel that it isn't a good book to me.
Gotta love anybody who references Hemingway. :-) Excellent post.
I absolutely love the Hemingway quote about one true sentence. For a while I had that as my wallpaper on my laptop, very motivating.
Wonderful post!
This is a great post Jan! It's true, there is truth in every story, and I love the quotes! Especially the Oscar Wilde...I love him..thanks for this..
Great information and quotes. I especially liked the Wilde quote. I didn't know what verity meant.
Good luck with the final days of the A to Z Challenge!
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