Quotes About Writing

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on which we ride out the truth of our experiences.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

The different part of writing and singing worship lies in the identity and truth of God's Word and true intention for us as His followers on this Earth.

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.