16 Quotes by Wendy Lesser

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

The solution to the novel’s legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will remain in your mind after you’ve finished Reversible Errors will mainly have to do with the novel’s other elements.

Things can only be true in a specific way, for one reader at a time, at a particular moment in a reader’s life.

Satyr,” he says, “is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every body’s Face but their Own; which is the chief Reason for that kind Reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

When it comes to literature, we are all groping in the dark, even the writer. Especially the writer. And that is a good thing – maybe one of the best things about literature. It’s always an adventure of some kind.