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The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.
— Marianne Cushing
Beware the faces that bare the most smiles.
For they are the ones who hide the most sadness - . — A.R. Von
For they are the ones who hide the most sadness - . — A.R. Von
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
— Diane Duane
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
Open your soul and they will stop and watch. — Dan Alatorre
Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly.
— Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell
See the truth. Feel the truth. Be the truth.
— A.D. Posey
Writing is my pleasure and the play,
where I find myself again and again. — Debasish Mridha
where I find myself again and again. — Debasish Mridha
Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
— Walter Raleigh
Her words dance on the page.
— A.D. Posey
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 truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.
— J.K. Rowling
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
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
I'm telling you, writing the book is easy. The after part will break your back. Not to mention your heart.
— Suzy Soro
You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.
— Jon Foreman
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
— Francis Bacon
Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.
— Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
— Harry Elmer Barnes
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
— Loretta Lynn
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.
— Steve Bisley
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
The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction.
— Renee Conoulty
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
— Joss Whedon
Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.
— Chriscinthia Blount
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
— Stephen King
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
— Brian K. Vaughan
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
I write not for sensation, but for Truth. I leave judgement to the hearts of my good Readers everywhere.
— David Ebershoff
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I will take any liberty I want with facts as long as I don't trespass on the truth ... We confuse facts with truth.
— Farley Mowat
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
— Khaled Hosseini
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
— Charles Yu
The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention
— Barbara Kingsolver
People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
— Sebastian Faulks
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
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
Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever ...
— Lisa Jones
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
— Jonathan Dimbleby
Writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...
— John Geddes
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.
— Philip Gerard
Truth? How can you get truth out of fiction?"
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Episode 3 — Tom Bruno
Kieler from Zotikas: Attraction and Repulsion
Episode 3 — Tom Bruno
There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.
— Phil Klay
Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further
— Nikhil Sharda
The truth is everything.
— A.D. Posey
It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth ... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.
— Kitty Kelley
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
— G.K. Chesterton
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
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.
— J.G. Ballard
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
— Amy Poehler
writing it helped me to believe it. It staked some claim on the truth.
— Amanda Lindhout
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.
— Tobias Wolff
Crying cleanses the soul.
— A.D. Posey
The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.
— Carla H. Krueger
Poets only write the truth.
— Shannon Lynette
The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.
— Reza Aslan
My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.
— Debasish Mridha
One can learn a lot about a person by the things she writes.
— Becky Watson
The truth is that most writers are needy.
— Stephen King
But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.
(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009) — Neil Gaiman
(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009) — Neil Gaiman
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.
— Mark Twain
Writing it is itself one of the experiments with truth. One
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
— Audre Lorde
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
— Neil Gaiman
The truth brings people closer together.
— A.D. Posey
I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.
— A.D. Posey
She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?
— Vivian Gornick
I am writing because sometimes we are closer to the truth in our vulnerability than in our safe certainties,
— Rachel Held Evans
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.
— Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
— Emily Dickinson
When I started writing every day, I realized a painful truth: I can't react and create at the same time. Neither can you.
— Jeff Goins
good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep
— Anne Lamott
There is no praise or criticism that is a reliable truth. Only the experience of writing a book is reliable.
— R. Harlan Smith
I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.
— Sarah Dessen