Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]
What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown.
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.
