Laura Riding Quotes

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

I wasn't elected to sugar coat things.I wasn't elected to tell stories and twist the stories around to the public.

Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

The language of truth is simple.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.

One must be frank to be relevant.

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

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

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

I say what I mean. I don't speak in code. That's why I am a star and ace communicator.