"The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act."

Thomas Jane, American Actor

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"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."

Hal Holbrook, American Actor

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"People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time."

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"Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist."

People

"I don't sign contracts for my books."

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"Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change."

Change

"I think people should be consumers of journalism."

People

"I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family."

Family

"Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society."

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"I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection."

Ambition

"I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure."

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"I don't take advances for my books."

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