“Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.”

“Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.”

“To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?”

“The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the world to live with a woman.”

“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.”

“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”