Laura Riding Quotes

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

The core of my writing is not art but truth.

A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

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

I am truth. I was made of truth.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

Convert life into truth.

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

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.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

I choose to be authentic in everything I do

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?