'In real life many writers are liars.
Perhaps, when starting off, they all are:
no real story is ever as neat as the writer tells it.
Politicians with a tendency to self-glorifying
exaggeration usually get caught early
and are advised by their handlers to cut it out,
so that Hilary Clinton doesn't land
more than once in Sarajevo 'under sniper fire',
and Joe Biden, who once expended his every
experience into an act of heroism,
eventually learns to feign veracity.
But writers have to advise themselves.'.
-from 'Latest Readings' a 2015 book by Clive James (1939-2019).
I have not yet discovered what Clive James thought of Donald Trump.
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