Verisimilitude Literary Quotes & Sayings

A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude. — S. S. Van Dine

A working class hero is something to be. — John Lennon

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently. — Eric Bogosian

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. — Mae West

Friendship evangelism' is the freedom to Agape others without an agenda (Young)."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over. — Erica Jong

(The word "robot" is from a Czech word meaning "compulsory labor.") — Isaac Asimov

Well so am I." She stared at the coverlet. "What I said ... earlier," she faltered, glancing at him and then away. "I was overwrought and tired, and I guess I kind of got carried away."
"You mistook a chill for true love? — Diana Palmer

Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio. — Kanye West