Joe McGinniss

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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