Bob Woodward Quotes

There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.

The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.

I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.

I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.

America needs some honest men who dare to say what they think, not what they think people want them to think.

One of the advantages of no longer running for public office is that I don’t have to pretend to be nice to people I dislike.

Anything I did with the WWE was not therapeutic by any stretch of the imagination. The reality is that nobody's going to tell you that, because they have an umbilical cord hooked to Vince McMahon. I, ladies and gentlemen, do not.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.

Outrage is something Donald Trump typically has in no short supply.

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.

Observe, don't imitate.

I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.