Joe McGinniss

“A writer's job is to tell the truth.”

“The most valuable thing a writer has is his own voice.”

“The line between the journalist and the novelist is becoming ever more blurred.”

“I'm not an investigative reporter. I'm a writer who is drawn to stories about the human condition.”

“Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.”

“This is the television era. When you deny television, you deny reality.”

“Fatal Vision was a book about self-delusion.”

“I write to find out what I’m thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.”

“Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art.”

“They were selling personality. And that's what politics is all about in this country now.”

“It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.”