Quotes About Truth

Ninety percent of the people who come to my stores have no idea I don't work with leather.

True stories are way more interesting.

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

People want real-life stories.

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.

I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.

I have broken a lot of stories.

I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.

How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

Now you know the rest of the story.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.

One of the saddest things in this world is to see a child grow up hating one of their parents because they only got one side of the story.

You'll get nowhere buying stocks just because they have a great story.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.