Art Quote by George Orwell

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

— Gore Vidal

“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived…

— Val Edward Simone

“We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we do not…

— Pat Walsh

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

— Andy Rooney

“I will talk about truth again, without which (without the word truth , without the mystery truth ) there would be no writing. It…

— Hélène Cixous

The writer's job is to tell the truth,

— Ernest Hemingway

“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present these in…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any…

— Julian Barnes

“Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet”

— Andreï Makine

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

— Wally Lamb

“The art that speaks [truth] most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.”

— Eudora Welty

“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