Truth Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris

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

— Ernest Hemingway

“A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

— Stephen King

“If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.”

— Anthony Burgess

“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.”

— Arnost Lustig

“A good man is hard to write!”

— Tabi Wollstonecraft

“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.”

— Edward Abbey

“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

— Anais Nin