George Orwell Quotes

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

An autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

Truth purchases hatred. Veritas odium parit.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing.

You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

I can't stand lying. I can't stand liars.

Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.

I'm the worst liar alive.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!