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When I'm writing, I like to have a tiny bit of fact and then exaggerate it and turn it into something more people could…

— Jorja Smith

You just have to make sure you're writing about something that's true. It has to be honest and it has to have a real…

— Teddy Thompson

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

— Eden Robinson

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

— Michael Hastings

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

— Lois Lowry

Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as…

— Anne Lamott

Good writing is about telling the truth.

— Anne Lamott

The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more…

— Harlan Ellison

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around…

— John Trudell

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

— Charles de Lint

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