Bay of pigs Quote by Glen Carter

“A writer of stories is a liar.”

— John Steinbeck

“Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit.”

— Marilyn Celeste Morris

“The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job.”

— Kameron Hurley

“There's an enormous difference between being a story writer and being a regular person. As a person, it's your duty to stay on a…

— Rick Bass

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan

“What I like most about the stories I write is exploring other lives and professions. It's a way of having all the jobs I…

— Katie Fforde

“But stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose…

— Yuval Noah Harari

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

— Andy Rooney

“The novelist's business is lying.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

My career has been driven with the hope of telling stories, as it helps me to judge people less.

— Parvathy

“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things.”

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Anthony Marais