Accuracy of Representation Quotes

Exactitude is not truth.

Truth is a tendency.

When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

I never recreate dialogue. I have often been asked by people, 'You must have made this up because this is dialogue, right?' Anything in my books that is in quotes comes from some kind of living historical document: a letter, a memoir, a court transcript, a newspaper interview.

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.

There's a certain amount of pressure that comes from playing real people. It's a pressure to deliver something fair and right to the real person and any living relatives. But generally, it's a joy, as you get to target your interest on a particular era.

Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.

It's challenging to play a real-life character because you know that it existed in the history and you have certain parameters to follow and stay within.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Anything in which you're playing someone real does make you feel responsible for making the story as true as it can be.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.

Clearness is so often one of the characteristics of truth that often it even passes for truth itself.