‘Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they
go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which
consists in inventing persons, places, and events
which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in
detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are
done writing down this pack of lies, they say, ‘There! That’s the truth!”
Ursula K. LeGuin
