Any Quote by Joan Didion

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

— Anonymous

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business…

— Agatha Christie

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

— Catherine the Great

“Here's a lesson for you, Sonny: Don't write if you can talk, don' talk if you can nod your head, don't nod if you…

— Ed Falco

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

— Jackie Collins

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

— Eliot Spitzer

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

— Susan Sontag

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest…

— Jean Craighead George

“We will make them tell us what it is," said Poirot. "Third degree?" said Colonel Carbury. "No." Poirot shook his head. "Just ordinary conversation.…

— Agatha Christie

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky