Andrew Rosenthal Quotes

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

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

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

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

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of 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.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

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

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

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Everything I say is true.

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

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

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell 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.

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

The most difficult thing for a manager to determine is when a fact is really a fact.

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