Admit Quote by Adam Rex

“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And…

— Joe Clifford Faust

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

— Billy Bragg

I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them…

— Philippe Claudel

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing…

— Tom Stoppard

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

— Mark Strand

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people…

— Harvey Pekar

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

— Allison Pearson

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

— Taiye Selasi

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make…

— Maya Angelou

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with…

— Gore Vidal

“Don't ask yourself if your talented - others answer that question. And if people do accept what you write, let your only conclusion be…

— Lyuben Dilov

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am…

— Michael Cera