Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 38

• Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Nice, Emily

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• As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

  Harper Lee

  Inspiring, Growing Up, Eye

  "Harper Lee Gets a Request for a Photo; Offers Important Life Advice Instead (2006)". www.openculture.com. July 27, 2015.

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• The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

  Anne Frank

  Young, Not Afraid

  Frances Goodrich, Anne Frank, Albert Hackett (1989). “Anne Frank: the diary of Anne Frank; excerpts from Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl”

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• WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the author's best guesses. Where possible, illustrations of important symbols mentioned in the recording have been added. Background noises such as scuffling, hitting, and cursing by the two speakers have not been transcribed The author makes no claims for the authenticity of the recording. It seems impossible that the two young narrators are telling the truth, but you, the reader, must decide for yourself.

  Rick Riordan

  Illustration, Background Noise, Two

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• [Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

  Nora Roberts

  Love You, Your Side, Screw Ups

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• One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Life Is, Moments, Drawbacks

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Hot Water”, p.248, Random House

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• I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

  Anne Bronte

  Able, Moral

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.12, Diversion Books

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• Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

  Alan Moore

  Lying, Believe, Artist

  "V for Vendetta". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.

  Philip Reeve

  Real, Stories, Patterns

  Philip Reeve (2011). “Here Lies Arthur”, p.211, Scholastic UK

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• There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lying, Numbers, Infinite

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.189, Penguin

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• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Honesty, Libel

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Fiction

  "Books That Are Just What the Doctor Ordered". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. June 18, 2006.

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• When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

  Mary Pipher

  Pain, Heart, Easier

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• The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

  Megan McCafferty

  Crazy, Fiction, Stuff

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• If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Writing, Emotional

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• Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

  Ellen Bass

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• Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

  Maya Angelou

  Hurt, Honesty, Pain

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Letter To My Daughter”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• All we can do is go around telling the truth.

  Carson McCullers

  Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Can Do

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Self, Speak

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!

  Stephen King

  Lying, Men, Two

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower I (MTI): The Gunslinger”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.

  Betty Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Should Have

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Distrust

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.158, Ultramarine Publishing

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• A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Fiction

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• a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

  Gore Vidal

  Journalist

  Gore Vidal (1998). “The American presidency”, Common Courage Pr

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• If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care – although, to tell the truth, I don’t see why?

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dog, Thinking, Mind

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