Believe Quote by Arthur Koestler

Good writing is about telling the truth.

— Anne Lamott

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

— Natalie Goldberg

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

— Alexander Herzen

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

— Lewis Carroll

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

— Dale Carnegie

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

— Gordon Lish

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

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it !

— Alfred Adler

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary…

— Anne Lamott