Africa Quote by Maya Angelou

You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.'

— Walker Hayes

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

— K'naan

“the only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other…

— Margaret Atwood

The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place,…

— Lauren Groff

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

— Loretta Lynn

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

“Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.”

— Henning Mankell

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can - without scaring people off too much, I…

— Thundercat

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

— Nora Roberts