Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

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

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm looking to be subtle, but being a wordsmith does not interest me - I want to communicate.

When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

I hope to be known as a writer who told the truth.

Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.

The first rule of hip-hop is probably keep it real. And that can mean a lot of different things, but that's certainly important in reporting and storytelling.

I'm not a journalist, never pretend to be.

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Truth is a great flirt.

You never monkey with the truth.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.