Quotes About Honesty

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

I'm not a writer.

It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

I told them that I cannot lie when a writer asks me what's my feeling not doing the game. I said I have to be honest. And my honest reply to you is, obviously, I'm a loyal team player. I will go where my bosses tell me to go.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

I'm a lousy writer, and it shows when I try to write poetry.

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, 'We make great albums and write great albums - but don't be under the impression I'm going to be a lyricist that writes anything other than what strikes me as inspiring in the moment.' The lyrics weren't going to be focused politically.

I think that Chad Gray is one of the most honest, emotional, real vocalists there is; he really takes a lot of pride in writing the lyrics, takes a lot of time with them. He writes and re-writes more than just about anybody I've ever been around.

I know Ed Sheeran writes with a bunch of fantastic writers, but for me, it's quite difficult to be that honest with other people.

In the future, I'd like to continue being honest with myself and admit when I'd be better off asking someone else to illustrate my writing.

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.