Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess…

Nothing is drearier than just always telling the truth about yourself. Rousseau, who as far as I can tell was a pathological liar, made…

— Lawrence Douglas

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

— Barbara Kingsolver

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

— Manuel Puig

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King

“Okay, granted, there's a lot of willful blindness out there, more than enough to go around, and failures of imagination abound as well. One…

— Richard Russo

“You can't trust anything on the Internet." "Can, too," I said, completed offended. "So, if I posted a comment saying I was an Arabian…

— Darynda Jones

I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection…

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And…

— Dale Archer

It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

— Mila Kunis

“Kelsko was a toad. But he was proud. Kelsko was a pathological liar, but he was not a sucker for the lies of others,…

— Leigh Nichols

“Pathological liars lie most often to themselves about their ability to fool others. They think they're geniuses at it when most people see through…

— Stewart Stafford

Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the…

— Mark Shields

And I, love, am a pathological liar,

— Sylvia Plath