Quotes about Truth

Lie life through its fullest

Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another. -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in A Moveable Feast.

Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.

You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything.

Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.

But the world they were in was not the world he was in.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.