About Quote by Pearl Cleage

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's…

— Barack Obama

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

— Andy Rooney

I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or…

— John Updike

The writer's job is to tell the truth,

— Ernest Hemingway

“All they're trying to do is tell you what they're like, and what you're like—what's going on—what the weather is now, today, this moment,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's…

— Charles de Lint

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

— Azar Nafisi

I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves.

— Christopher Priest

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott

“Putting thoughts into words is vastly different from putting truth into words. For words are not truth. As ardently as writers sort and select…

— Lionel Fisher

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it…

— Anonymous

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let…

— Ursula K. Le Guin