A Quote by William Goldman

You can never trust what you read.

William Goldman

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William Goldman
American - Novelist
August 12, 1931 - November 16, 2018

Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

Dave Barry

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

Beatrice Dalle

I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.

Roger Angell

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

Edna Buchanan

As a member of the mainstream media for many years, I've learned just one thing: never to trust anything I read in the mainstream media - not because of any agenda or deliberate dissimulation, but simply because it's filtered and comes very often from someone whose judgment I might not trust in other circumstances.

Pico Iyer

Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.

Dwight L. Moody

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Werner Herzog

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.

Ben Kingsley

I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.

Kate Levering

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

Northrop Frye

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

Laura Lippman

I often say to my assistants, "Never trust anybody," but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

Akio Morita

Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

Nancy A. Collins

Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

Mason Cooley

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