Quotes About Truth

One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.

When you are absorbed in a biographical subject, you get so close you don't realise the potential effect of what you say. You are trying to get at the truth.

As I grow older, I realise that just because I'm so obsessed with the truth, it doesn't mean that everyone else in my life is equally comfortable with it.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.

I realised that acting is not my god.

I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media, and their voice is there, people can actually cut through the nonsense and see what's really going on.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

I'm always looking for authenticity in my films. They're based in realism.

I only understand realism.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

Social realism takes research.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

I consider myself a realist.

I'm very much a realist.

I am a social realist writer.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

I'm a realist.