Journalist Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Journalist Telling the truth Truth Writing
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. — John Metcalf Copy Share Image
“As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.” — Lennox Morrison Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into the journalist… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson's biggest deception yet - worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it. — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast. — Christopher Monckton Copy Share Image
