Roy Peter Clark once pitched a book proposal called The Honest Writer, in which he owned up to some of his own youthful sins against journalism, including fabricating quotes for a high school term paper. He reveals more in a Poynter post: "For the writer, in school or on the job, honesty is not just the best policy; it’s also the best insurance policy, protecting you and your reader from every form of literary malpractice. Honesty will keep you out of trouble."
