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To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

— Robert McKee

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful…

— Edmund White

Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful…

— Edmund White

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

— Henrik Ibsen

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

— Azar Nafisi

“I write what I feel, fiction with a twist of truth. I don't write because I want to, I write because I have to.”

— Jack Tate

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

— Taiye Selasi

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with…

— Gore Vidal

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

— John Darnielle

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

— Lzzy Hale

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to…

— Robert Cormier

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