Diane Ackerman Quotes

The simplest things are often the truest.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

The words of truth are simple.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

What you see with me is what you get. I don't have to conduct a poll to figure out what I'm going to tell somebody. I don't have to hire some consultant to come up with some cute catch phrase. I just call it like I see it.

I feel like when you just say what the truth is, you can't really comment more than that.

Simple is the speech of truth.

I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

Simple is the language of truth.

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.

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

The stream is always purer at its source.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

In simplicity there is truth.

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.