Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.
What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
Trump fired Jim Comey because the most dangerous thing in the world, if you are Donald Trump, is a person who tells the truth, is dogged, you can't control, and who is as committed as Comey is to the institutional independence of an organization that has the power to investigate you.
Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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.
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
People are more interested in someone who goes on stage and tells the truth.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
but even the facts do not always tell the truth
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.
The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.