Donna Tartt Quotes

If people believe something is true, then it is even if it isn't.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

Reason is the illusion of reality

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Reality is a question of perspective.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.