Beats Quote by Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Gore Vidal

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

— Gail Caldwell

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

— Andy Rooney

The writer's job is to tell the truth,

— Ernest Hemingway

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

— Richard Rorty

Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the…

— Catherine Marshall

Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and…

— Robert Grudin

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

— Anonymous

“What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation,…

— Hilary Mantel