Factual Quotes

Stick to the truth, avoid exaggeration.

I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.

Reality is not optional.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

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

I deal in facts.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

I'm a realist.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

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

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

True information does good.

At the end of the day, I believe truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

I do believe that the truth gets out.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

They're only words, unless they're true.

A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.