Quotes About Truth

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I want to read philosophers.

Most claims you read about psychological manipulation are rubbish.

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it.

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.

Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.