Robyn Davidson Quotes

When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

Writing on the road is a passion of mine.

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

Truth is inner harmony.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

Truth is the easiest thing to sell.

Warmth is to sun, as truth is to me.