Andre Aciman Quotes

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

I have faced up to what I am.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing

It's really important to be honest to yourself.

In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.

When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand how much of yourself you're giving.

It's very hard to look at the man in the mirror. Because you can't hide anything.