Quotes on Convinced

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.