Diane English Quotes

In my career, I do not stop for news when it's not true.

I don't give false claims any due.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

Everything I say is true.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

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.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

True information does good.

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

The measure of our [the Voice of America] success will be the degree to which we are believed.

The truth is more important than the facts

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

I need to know everything inside quote marks is true.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

When you tell the truth, you don't have to change your testimony.

You check off stories to make sure if they're true or if they're right.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.