Gregory Benford Quotes

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

To each our own Hamlet.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?

What's good for me is certainly not good for other people.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

No one can see your life the way you see it.

Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.

Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

I paint my own reality.

I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written by local writers, it just takes a little bit of openness to open your pages up to a wider freelance writer pool, and then you might find new voices and a wider array of voices, and definitely more original content that can't be found anywhere else.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.