Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.
Caroline KettlewellTag: deception lies lying public-image half-truths
If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?
Susan Elizabeth PhillipsWriters of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
Aljean HarmetzTag: lies writing writers lying embellishment
Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
Tamora PierceRalon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?"
Alanna didn't look up. "No." It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time.
Tag: strange lying bully alanna ralon
I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you."
"I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "--or the best. Now I'm all confused.
Tag: lying confusion jon alanna exposed-truth
Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: truth lying propoganda euphemism
Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's about using those lies to say something true and real. It's about showing the reader something. It's about making them feel.
And how we do that as authors is to put ourselves into our work, and make it mean something to us, so that it will mean something to the reader. That's what we should do. That's our job.
Tag: truth lying readers-and-writers
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
Robert Charles WilsonTag: childhood adulthood lying deceit
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
Sam HarrisTag: lying
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