Always Quote by Rachel Kushner

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

— Jhumpa Lahiri

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

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

— Azar Nafisi

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

— Derek Walcott

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

— Andy Rooney

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

— Don DeLillo

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 story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say…

— Joy Williams

When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and…

— Pearl Cleage

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

— Jorge Luis Borges