It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she'd been identifying patterns I was unaware of— this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Don't go in for the yellowish if what you need is yellow. The attitude called precision is the quality that remarks the accuracy of your demand. Never settle for the less; Go for the exact thing!