Lying and poetry are arts -
-arts, as Plato saw, not unconnected with each other -
and they require the most careful study, the most disinterested devotion.
--Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
-arts, as Plato saw, not unconnected with each other -
and they require the most careful study, the most disinterested devotion.
--Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
Exaggerate normal things. Imagination is a wild thing, amazing thing... Lie. Make-believe. Tell stories.
"Lying frees the liar from the constraints of truth, moving him or her into the higher realms of deliberately-conceived art and away from the grim realities of unpolished nature."
Lying, or storytelling, as antidote to unhappiness
Sinbad the Sailor and Baron Münchhausen - liars or storytellers?
Levitation - or how to suspend reader's disbelief
Hyperbole in Fiction Writing Engages Readers
Storytelling is not lying
He's a real fictional character - sometimes exaggeration works
2 comments:
There was a time when I thought the truth was the highest virtue. Over time, however, I've learned everyone has their OWN truth (and they often have very little overlap). I never thought I'd have an MC who tells lies, but the Cozy Mystery I am polishing has an MC who is a Public Relations professional... she doesn't LIE exactly, but SPIN is her livelihood, and withholding truth when it might harm her clients is just par for the course. I've had a lot of fun with it.
Sounds interesting :-)
William Blake said:
"A truth that's told with bad intent
beats all the lies you can invent"
- After having read Túrin's saga by Tolkien I named it The Dragons' Motto.
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