Sarah Bradford Quotes

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

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

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

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

In my career, I do not stop for news when it's not true.

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

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

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

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

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Everything I say is true.

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.

Truth is what works.

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

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.

You can never trust what you read.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

True information does good.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

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

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

Be it true or false, so it be news.

The measure of our [the Voice of America] success will be the degree to which we are believed.