Be true Quote by Michael Morpurgo

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

— Gloria Steinem

When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can…

— Lauren Mayberry

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure…

— Elia Suleiman

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

— Ronald Frame

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

— Will Eisner

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not…

— James Frey

Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows details from…

— Charles Bock

“Fiction in general holds little interest for me. Novels, in particular, arouse more suspicion than intrigue. It truly baffles me that any practitioner of…

— Dan Garfat-Pratt