Stephen King Quotes

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

I write about what I know.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.

The core of my writing is not art but truth.

I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

If we do not speak with our own opinion, we prevaricate with God and our conscience.

In my experience, when you're writing, you want the truth, and you don't want to be apologetic in any way. But there is something in writing, the complexity of it, that works against that aim.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.

Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age.