"All great art - in fact all great lives - are the result of truth...whether that's having the guts to expose that truth on the page or to live it in every act." - Amanda Lees

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood: 

“The only way you can write the truth is toassume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”