A Quote by Thea Astley

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

Thea Astley

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Charity Covers Craftsmanship Exposed Faults Fully Like Multitude Novel Story

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Thea Astley
Australian - Novelist
August 25, 1925 - August 17, 2004

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

Voltaire

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

Brent Weeks

I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green.

Gardner Dickinson

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Sir Fulke Greville

I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

Garry Disher

What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.

Swami Vivekananda

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

J. G. Holland

'J' is a novel. A story about what it is like for people after a terrible event. And it is a love story, because I feel a novel is inevitably a love story.

Howard Jacobson

When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

Naomi Benaron

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

Naomi Benaron

The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.