The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
Only three types of people tell the truth: Kids, the drunk, and the angry. — Elizabeth Reyes Copy Share Image
I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth. — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery. — Jamison Green Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you're actually telling the truth,but you laugh, and everyone thinks you're lying. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and… — Larry Merchant Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse;… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many… — Pink Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
“...because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays,… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I… — William H. Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone… — Judy Smith Copy Share Image
“I think most writers … write about episodes meaningful to them in terms of their own imaginations. Now that would include a… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
There's a misconception about girls accusing people of sexual assault. There's this sense of, Well, she might be lying, she might be… — Jon Shenk Copy Share Image
“Telling the truth is a pretty hard thing. And in a young man's first attempt, with the distortions of his vanity, egotism,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Whether you are a good or bad writer is an irrelevancy when you first begin. What's important is that you write, you… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
![“[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It was a real rebel position. It was kind of like a teenager's position: why can't things be like they should be? Why can't I do what I want? I latched on to that philosophy…” quote by Larry Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e56/larry-clark-25877_hey_eugene-smith-was-always-writing-these-di_31228.jpg)
![“Telling the truth is a pretty hard thing. And in a young man's first attempt, with the distortions of his vanity, egotism, hot passion, and lacerated pride, it is almost impossible. "Home to Our Mountains" was marred by all these faults and imperfections...[Webber] did know that it was not…” quote by Thomas Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/682/thomas-wolfe-4237_books_telling-the-truth-is-a-pretty-hard-thing_3067664.png)
