Found in my electronic chapbook.

“Telling writers how to fake,” she said, “is like teaching children how to steal. You should be ashamed of yourself.” I should indeed be ashamed of myself, and I often am, but not this time. For fakery is the heart and soul of fiction. All our novels and short stories are nothing but a pack of lies. p. 215

From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.

I wrote 1,999 words yesterday morning and my total word count is now 47,062.

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