A Quote by Neil Gaiman

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

Neil Gaiman

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Dear Know Liars Now Surely Writers

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Neil Gaiman
British - Author
Born: November 10, 1960

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Alice Dreger

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

Daniel Keys Moran

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

Mark Twain

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Shan Sa

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

Daniel Keys Moran

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

Peter Greenaway

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

Jennifer Donnelly

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.

M. Night Shyamalan

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?

Jim Rohn

I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast. Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

David Levithan

Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached in fiction than in fact. There are risks for the reader, because after reading certain books you find you have changed irreversibly. There are risks for writers: in China, now, and Ethiopia and other countries right now, writers face real persecution.