Fabricated Story Quotes

We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

President Obama admitted this week that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person . . . So Obama had an imaginary girlfriend. Big deal! He had an imaginary economic plan. It’s all the same.

To get me in to the Army underage, my mother signed me in saying that my birth certificate was lost in a fire in Nashville, so I got in underage. I was 16. She did because I begged her to do it.

More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

A false tale often betrays itself.

Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking.