Ifs Quote by Anne Lamott

“Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent…

— Anne Lamott

If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing…

— Anne Lamott

“You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Tell…

— Anne Lamott

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that…

— Anne Rice

“A writer's moral duty is to use language thoughtfully and well.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience…

— Noam Chomsky

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless…

— Flannery O'Connor

The truth is that there's more than enough good to go around. There is more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough…

— Michael Beckwith

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

— Anonymous

“If all the world spoke, acted, or kept silence with intent to deceive, --if dearest interests were at stake, and dearest lives in peril,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or…

— John Ruskin

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

— Ron Suskind