Denise Richards Quotes

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

History is about who tells it.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

The color of truth is gray.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Life's all about perceptions.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Facts do not speak.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.