101 Quotes by Graham Moore

Even a true story is a fiction, Paul knew. It is the comforting tool we use to organize the chaotic world around us into something comprehensible. It is the cognitive machine that separates the wheat of emotion from the chaff of sensation.

Inept lying was almost as good as honesty.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn’t really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

Where the first America was brilliant, the second was ingenious. What.

Paranoid theorizing was too easy, too emotionally satisfying.

But this is the very thing about electricity. Nothing about it makes any common sense at all.

Thomas Edison was not, Paul thought, the first man to become rich by inventing something clever. Rather, he was the first man to build a factory for harnessing cleverness.

Some writing one had to do in the dark.

The moment you stop bargaining is the last in which you’re ever given a thing.