Ifs Quote by Loretta Lynn

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

— Azar Nafisi

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

— Richard Paul Evans

If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You are very…

— Carl Reiner

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

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey…

— Conor Oberst

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just…

— Ann Hood

Good writing is about telling the truth.

— Anne Lamott

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and…

— Gloria Steinem

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can…

— Jesse Andrews

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful…

— Edmund White