Aim Quote by Billy Howle

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds…

— Aminatta Forna

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

— Terence Winter

When we tell stories about things that are important - love, fear, beauty - we change the way people think about the world. Writers…

— Theodora Goss

Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's…

— Charles de Lint

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember…

— Mark Twain

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

— Gore Vidal

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

— Clifton Fadiman

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey…

— Conor Oberst

My thing is to try to tell the truth as honestly as possible. For me, the weight is, how can I tell the truth…

— Justin Simien

I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or…

— Philip Sington