Ian Fleming Quotes

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

I would never lie to anyone about history.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

Everything I say is true.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

True information does good.

Time trieth truth.

Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age.

I'm the real deal.

Authenticity is hella important.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

Plain truth, backed up by neither power or money, has no chance.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

Swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath. But let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay.