Children Quote by Julius Lester

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Azar Nafisi

“If you want to tell the truth, write fiction”

— Joshua Halberstam

When we tell stories about things that are important - love, fear, beauty - we change the way people think about the world. Writers…

— Theodora Goss

I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your…

— Paul Theroux

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write…

— Isadora Duncan

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

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of #storytelling.

— Jeremy Northam

The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are…

— George R. R. Martin

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

— Andy Rooney