Truth Quotes

"I believe the writer should serve the truth, even if the truth is strange."

"I think the most important thing is for the work to be true."

"To write is to make a judgment about what is true and what is false."

"The writer's responsibility is to tell the truth, however unpopular it may be."

"There is no order to the universe, only consequence and chaos, and the consequences always fall to the innocent."

"You have to understand that people want to be lied to. The comfort of a lie is all they really want."

"Fidelity to the truth is paramount. Everything else falls from that."

"There's no such thing as security. There's only the illusion of security."

"In the soul, there is a capacity for recognizing truth that transcends mere intellect."

"The greatest revolution is the revelation of truth."

"Every man is to himself quite rational; the great difficulty is to understand him."

"In the end, we are all just trying to be understood."

"We are all seeking the same thing: to be truly known."

"A writer is not a professional deceiver but a professional truther."

"The writer seeks out only reality, stripped of make-believe."

"In writing, as in life, authenticity is everything."

"The truth is that writing is the thing that teaches you who you are."

"Truth is multifaceted; there is rarely a single narrative."

"Authenticity is radical; most prefer comfortable deception."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life."

"The truth is, we are all both good and bad. We are mixed."

"It is very easy to make assumptions and judgments based on appearances."

"We must look at people as they are, not as we wish them to be."

"In writing, as in life, honesty is the only policy worth pursuing."

"The so-called 'real me' is not a particularly deep or complicated thing."

"The most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about."

"The so-called 'real you' emerges only in moments of crisis."

"The so-called 'real' is what remains when all interpretation is removed."

"The so-called 'real' is what hurts when you keep denying it."