All Quotes By Tag: Honesty

“Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.”

“There is always hope if we keep an unsolved problem fairly in view; there’s none if we pretend it’s not there.”

“Fearless honesty is sincere faith.”

“It is because I reject lies and running away that I am accused of pessimism; but this rejection implies hope — the hope that truth may be of use. And this is a more optimistic attitude than the choice of indifference, ignorance or sham.”

“We prove ourselves by the way we live, and the way we live resonates among all we know and do.”

“In an attempt to fix a crooked world, she broke herself, her heart, and her sanity.”

“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.”

“[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.”

“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly”

“Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. … The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers’ place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.”

“Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.”

“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn’t read your bible? Hmm?”I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself.”

“When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth.”

“Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go”

“Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity”