Quotes About Authenticity

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

I hate the truth so much that i'd rather have a giant dose of bulls**t anyday

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.

A lot of comics just joke around, but it's just as important to get the truth out there.

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

Nothing endures except truth.

Truth is never far behind.

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.