Cheating & Lying
“Working for [Time] magazine was, I think, a valuable training because it taught me the importance of what’s left out. There were absurd tasks sometimes — very complex and important issues having to be dealt with in two hundred words, so that often you were forced in a way to cheat and lie in order to compress as much as you had to.”
—John Hersey (1914-1993), journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, “John Hersey, The Art of Fiction No. 92,” The Paris Review, 1986.
• Editorial Comment: The 140-character analysis.
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