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Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
— Wole Soyinka
People are suckers for the truth and they know it when they see it. Open your soul and they will stop and watch. — Dan Alatorre
In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again. — Debasish Mridha
Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.
— A.D. Posey
When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.
— Diana Wynne Jones
In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.
— Henry Martin
In love there is truth, and in truth there is peace.
— A.D. Posey
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
— Gail Caldwell
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Never give up on your dreams, because they can come true!
— Rosanne Catalano
The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention
— Barbara Kingsolver
There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.
— Santosh Kalwar
there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth.
— Robert Graves
I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.
— Daniel Handler
Of course, for whatever is amiss in these pages (and there will be much), the blame is mine. But permit me to be grateful if anything in them is true.
— J. Budziszewski
Buck up, suck up, and admit you fucked up.
— Linda Hilton
In writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its governor ...
— Philip Pullman
Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.
— Alistair Begg
These pages are not my confession; they're my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
— Fernando Pessoa
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
— Igor Stravinsky
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
— Joseph Conrad
The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.
— Robyn Davidson
Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.
— Charles Willeford
Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.
— Ann Marie Aguilar
The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.
— Carla H. Krueger
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
— Amy Poehler
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.
— J.G. Ballard
The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.
— Diane Johnson
Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke
good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep
— Anne Lamott
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.
— Lincoln Diaz-Balart
I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.
— A.D. Posey
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
— David Lindsay-Abaire
Truth? How can you get truth out of fiction?"Kieler from Zotikas: Attraction and Repulsion
Episode 3 — Tom Bruno
If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
He was after all, a novelist ... and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.
— Stephen King
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
— Harry Elmer Barnes
You should edit before and after editing.
— Dwayne Fry
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
— A.J.P. Taylor
Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.
— Neale Donald Walsch
All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.
— Walter Dean Myers
