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The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

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

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.