Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

When you are working on a real story it is your responsibility to get everything right and stay as true and authentic as possible.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know -- and acknowledge what you don't know.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

The best stories come out of the truth.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

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

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

I don't edit information, I follow it.