Compulsive liar Quote by Neil Gaiman Download Open image “Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.” — Neil Gaiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compulsive liar Fiction Honestly Liars Writing
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Truth be told from compulsive liars with a history/Everything must change 2nd chances are a mystery — C-DASH Copy Share Image
“Above all else, I think that you are a compulsive liar." My laughter was tense, but sincere. "Hardly. In fact, I consider myself a… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. Donald Trump,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“Look you don't know I'm your soul mate," Lily said. " You barely know me at all. I have terrible habits. I swallow toothpaste.… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
Compulsive liars are annoying, they even start to believe their own lies... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 'Winnie the Pooh,' a lot of the characters have serious flaws: Pooh is sort of a food addict. Rabbit is OCD, and Owl… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.” — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
“Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he… — Tony Schwartz Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in the day’s occupations when old Money Writer falls so in love with an idea that he begins to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image