Quotes about Truth

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...

Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.

Heresy is the foe of countenance

A writer's job is to tell the truth. His standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. For facts can be observed badly; but when a good writer is creating something, he has time and scope to make an absolute truth.6

It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones.

This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

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.