Red Dog Rambling in Images
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But you can’t blame the liars because all a writer of fiction is really is a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. I am a writer of fiction and so I am a liar too and invent from what I know and that I’ve heard. I’m a liar.
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My excuse is that I make the truth as I invent it truer than it would be. That is what makes good writers or bad. If I write in the first person, stating it is fiction, critics now will still try to prove these things never happened to me. it is as silly as trying to prove Defoe was not Robinson Crusoe so therefore it is a bad book.
"Ernest Hemingway, True at First Light
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