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* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Johnny Maxwell Trilogy]]'', Johnny observes that it's amazing what grown-ups will let you do if you tell them that you're doing a project.
{{quote|If Saddam Hussein had said he was doing a project on Kuwait, the Gulf War would never have happened.}}
* This trope even shows up in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. When Frodo and his companions arrive at the inn in Bree, they realize they're going to need a plausible explanation for their wandering out of the Shire—so Frodo claims to be a historian who's thinking of writing a book about the relationship between the Shire and Bree. Two volumes later, as they're returning home through Bree, Frodo is asked if he's written his book yet. He says he's still getting his notes in order. He wasn't completely lying - like [[The Hobbit (novel)|Bilbo before him]], Frodo [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|recorded the story of the characters]] in the Red Book, which was then passed down through generations of hobbits.
* In an ''[[Animorphs]]'' book (#6, ''The Capture''), the Animorphs are attempting to prevent the Yeerks from taking a politician when he has surgery at a hospital they control. To find out when he'll be there, Marco calls his office and gets his schedule by claiming to be from the press.
** This kind of thing happened in real life, when writing the books, too (mostly by ghostwriters). Laura Battyanyi-Weiss had to look up limited information on Giant Squids when writing #27 ''The Exposed''.
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