Lena Waithe Quotes

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

I try my best to live by the principle that if you're going to be telling a story that you didn't live, tell it with as much respect as you can for the people who did live it.

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.

I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

What I try to do with my career as an actor is what I've learned in the theater: I am rigorous with myself as to whether I'm telling the truth, and I try to surround myself with filmmakers and content creators who are also interested in the pursuit of the truth.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

My thing is to try to tell the truth as honestly as possible. For me, the weight is, how can I tell the truth through fiction, the best that I can?

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it.

The truth is not so good a story.

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.