"Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story."
— Fiction

January 1, 1970

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Rudyard Kipling, "Fiction", speech to the Royal Society of Literature, June 1926; published in Writings on Writing: Rudyard Kipling (1996), ed. Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis, p. 80.