Accuracy Quote by Pam Houston Download Open image “For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.” — Pam Houston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accuracy Important Important Accuracy Shaping Shaping Story Stories Story Important
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true. — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine.… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“I still don't see how it would make me feel any better to think of the pain in my hip and spine as anything… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“Find yourself a place in the universe,' she said, 'a place where the dirt feels like goodness under your feet. Take the right picture… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do… — Bruno Maag Copy Share Image
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing,… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
The federal government is starting to plan for climate change by making extended forecasts that can help people plan for extreme weather - because… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
