Patrick Ness Quotes

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.

My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.

Be the guy that delivers the goods and consistently promise things that you can deliver. Even if you under-promise, it's better than over-promising and not delivering, because you don't get a lot of tries.

I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces some kind of edict and says you're going to have to pay protection money.

Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.

I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

Trust the Simi. She ain't never wrong.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.