Quotes About Truth

I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for fear; we suffer the consequences

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

You can't just sing the song and live another life.

There is life or death in words.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.

I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.