Brett Young Quotes

I do not make stories up, full stop.

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.

Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.

I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.

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.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

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.

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

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'.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.

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

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

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

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.