Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you…

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

— Stephen King

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be…

— Stephen King

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society…

— Stephen King

“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe that people…

— Stephen King

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” Winston Churchill”

— Tammy Hinton

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

— Anonymous

I'm always amused by the way questions are asked. "What did you intend?" That's not even a recognizable verb. You don't intend when you…

— Lore Segal

“Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.”

— Alan Watt

It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that, it's good…

— Johnny Flynn

“To write truthfully you must live, and you must feel what you are living.”

— Arturo Barea

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could…

— Rachel Carson

A common and usually unfortunate answer is “Write about what you know.” Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination, nothing is quicker to…

— John Gardner

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not…

— Wallace Shawn

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre…

— Anonymous

“Gurov, discovers that the most important features of life that you want to talk about cannot be spoken of in polite society.”

— Charles Baxter