In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
Denis Johnson

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
Griffin Dunne

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.
Franz Marc

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
Edgar Watson Howe

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
George Armstrong Custer

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
Billy Crystal

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
Paul Celan

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.
Morgan Freeman

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
Taylor Dane

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.
John Olver

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
Charlotte Bronte

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.
Michelle Trachtenberg

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
Richard Foreman

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
Barry McGuire

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow