Neil Gaiman said something once on the lines of "Writing is telling the truth with a lie"

…gh ciphers, while those ciphers seek the shapes, in a never ending conundrum of linguistic madness. To write is to lie, since anyone who sees writing for what it is would recognize its absurdity… Nothing in the world is truly justified through words, not even words, since the only way for ‘way’…
Guiding a Dream: Literary Scaffolding From Dust
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Neil Gaiman said something once on the lines of "Writing is telling the truth with a lie"
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Lover of the arts. Master of Applied Psychology. https://ko-fi.com/squeezetheavocado
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