A Quote by Daniel Keys Moran

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

Daniel Keys Moran

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Daniel Keys Moran
American - Writer
Born: November 30, 1962

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Daniel Keys Moran

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.

Tim O'Brien

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a story. I believe that most -- if not all -- people are born with these seeds. What separates the writers from the non-writers is that the writers actually sit down and, you know... write.

Laurie Halse Anderson

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

Cate Blanchett

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

Chuck Klosterman

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

Alice Dreger

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

Mark Twain

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

Peter Greenaway

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Shan Sa

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

Jennifer Donnelly

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

Neil Gaiman

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

Raymond Chandler

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Alberto Moravia

All men are born truthful and die liars.

Luc de Clapiers

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?