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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell

The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published. — Marianne Cushing

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy. — A.D. Posey

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

Truth is always duller than fiction. — Piers Paul Read

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

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read. — A.D. Posey

When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry. — Ray Bradbury

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien

Writing is my pleasure and the play,
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

Her words dance on the page. — A.D. Posey

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth. — S.A. Tawks

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life. — Alan Watt

Be a burst of joy. — A.D. Posey

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. — Philip Pullman

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

Listen.
I will lose myself
if it means I can find you. — Alaska Gold

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

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires. — Ann Marie Aguilar

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

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine. — Chriscinthia Blount

Walk in truth. Leave footprints of honesty. — A.D. Posey

The truth is that most writers are needy. — Stephen King

Sometimes, God doesn't send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it. — Shannon L. Alder

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

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. — Mark Twain

Truth? How can you get truth out of fiction?"
Kieler from Zotikas: Attraction and Repulsion
Episode 3 — Tom Bruno

You should edit before and after editing. — Dwayne Fry

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

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

It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. — William Trevor

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

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

Here's the truth about organic writing: It's just story planning by another name. — Larry Brooks

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

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. — Stephen King

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought. — Anthony Kiedis

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel. — Alvaro De Campos

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

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

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

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth. — Wole Soyinka

Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not? — A.D. Posey

Is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth? ... — John Geddes

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it. — Neil Postman

I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. — Sonia Sanchez

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. — Joss Whedon

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

Stories are invented as you go along... — Orson Scott Card

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete. — Marston James

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

At last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. — Brenda Ueland

writing it helped me to believe it. It staked some claim on the truth. — Amanda Lindhout

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth ... Everything I have written has stood the test of time. — Kitty Kelley

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

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

Crying cleanses the soul. — A.D. Posey

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee

Everyday we are writing a page in a book we call life. So write it better, write it with love. — Debasish Mridha

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves. — Carla H. Krueger

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver. — A.D. Posey

Poets only write the truth. — Shannon Lynette

People believe in everything except the reality. — Min Kim

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

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

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story. — A.D. Posey

One can learn a lot about a person by the things she writes. — Becky Watson

I am writing because sometimes we are closer to the truth in our vulnerability than in our safe certainties, — Rachel Held Evans

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. — Joan Didion

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

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays. — Judy Woodruff

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

The truth brings people closer together. — A.D. Posey

Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops. — Mark Donnelly

Which isn't the truth, you understand. At least you understand that in your head ... but not always in your heart. — Stephen Leigh

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth. — Lori Lansens

Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live. — A.D. Posey

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).
Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke

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

Inhale sky. Exhale stars. — Vytautaseneyevich