About Quote by Edmund White

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

— Azar Nafisi

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really…

— Sylvester Stallone

Good writing is about telling the truth.

— Anne Lamott

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

— Amy Poehler

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels…

— Daveed Diggs

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

— Lzzy Hale

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

— Ray Bradbury

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

— Will Eisner

“Stories are truth. Through writing, you can say so much more than in speaking. Writing is not fantasizing, writing is telling the world who…

— Theprinceoftworealities

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

— Julianna Baggott

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman