In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.