Firsts Quote by Dacia Maraini

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience…

— Walter Mosley

“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what…

— George Orwell

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

— Gore Vidal

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

— Andy Rooney

The writer's job is to tell the truth,

— Ernest Hemingway

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.”

— Lennox Morrison

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.”

— Christopher Bram

A writer's work is to witness things.

— Edward Hoagland

“Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no…

— Dinty W. Moore

“There is this quality esteemed within every good writer. She knows…she knows that truth must be un-sheltered within every human transition phase or stable…

— Dew Platt