Quotes About Truth

We know this story isn't true, but it is truth.

It is a great mistake on the part of elderly ladies, male and female, to tell a child that he is seeing his happiest days. Do not you believe a word of it, my little friend.

The jig is up: I'm not a nice lady.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

There's nothing fake about flipping over and landing on your back.

When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, 'Yo - don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom.' Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?

When people write things on the Internet about me that aren't true, it's tough to deal with. Even if you're the most mellow person in the world, stuff like that bothers you eventually.

I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just combine hip-hop with melody. That's how I classify myself.

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.

'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my story it is going to be me in my way.

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.