Amount Quote by William Faulkner

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

— Azar Nafisi

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

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.”

— Alan Watt

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

— Andy Rooney

“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.”

— Kamand Kojouri

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

— Anne Lamott

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places…

— Simon Schama

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Truth is the aim of story. And though we must take into account the human author’s subjectivity and personal slant, the best authors are…

— Sarah Arthur

“It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.”

— psyche roxas-mendoza

There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.

— Michael Feinstein