Believe Quote by Walter Mosley

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the…

— Dacia Maraini

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

“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what…

— George Orwell

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

— Gore Vidal

“I'm not saying it's simple to find and tell the truth. It takes a great deal of hard work, intellectual honesty, open-mindedness, and a…

— Brad Parks

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

— Christopher Priest

“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.”

— Christopher Bram

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

— Gail Caldwell

“Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious to establish…

— Boris Pasternak

“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

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

“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