How Quote by Michiko Kakutani

“The story of Trump was the story of how he tried to make himself a story. He was shameless, campy, and instructive: if you…

— Michael Wolff

“The truth, indeed, is out—but the ears to hear it and the minds to learn from it seem to have been atrophied by a…

— Murray Bookchin

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Anthony Marais

President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears…

— Michiko Kakutani

“Listening to Trump, it almost felt like there was no such thing as truth anymore. It still feels that way.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived…

— Val Edward Simone

“In this age when reality is built on big lies, what better place for truth than fiction?”

— Mat Johnson

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts…

— Jay Asher

I think that what led largely to Trump's election was the manifestation of the too-common mindset that facts don't matter; in other words, "manifest…

— Shepard Fairey

“On November 8, 2016, the world shifted for just about everybody, including me. As strange as Trump’s victory was the realization that I’d had…

— Joshua Green

When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the…

— Jake Tapper