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The first job of a writer is to be honest.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

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.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

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

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.