A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case. Brendan I. Koerner
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  3. I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

  4. God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”) - Richard Matheson

  5. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Anonymous

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