Quotes About Writing

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

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

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.