Accuracy Quote by William Shawn

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing, third-rate journalism.…

— Donald Trump

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

— Pete Hamill

“The press in New York has tended to favor New Society in every period, and to take it seriously, if only because it provides…

— Tom Wolfe

Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.

— Scott Pruitt

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.”

— Oakley Hall

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

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we…

— Michael Specter

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by…

— Edward P. Jones

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

— James Cameron