Able Quote by Albert Camus

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.”

— Anthony Marais

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

— Neil Gaiman

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

— Jim Boeheim

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

— Daniel Keys Moran

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

— Ernest Hemingway

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are…

— Nina Bawden

I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

— Raymond Chandler

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

— John Metcalf

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

— Michael Chabon

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting…

— Jodi Picoult