Hope Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I'm telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the…

— Greta Thunburg

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back…

— Edmund White

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like…

— Andy Grundberg

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

— Tom Waits

Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

— Mona Charen

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

— Bell Hooks

I believe in truth-telling. So let's call it what it is. It's very troubling to see people like Bannon who make anti-Semitic remarks, who…

— Barbara Boxer

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about…

— Donald Miller

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

— Anonymous

You can't be afraid to speak the truth. If you're speaking truthfully - no matter if you're White, Black, Hispanic, Asian - if it's…

— Warren Ballentine

Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution,…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first…

— Alan Shapiro