Truthful Accounts Quotes

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how much they want to cut corners to avoid riling up others. I decided to write my memoirs exactly as they were, and I will not digress - not when things are ill at ease and not when they are comfortable.

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters; I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

You can only really get to any truth by telling peoples' stories.