“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!” KnowsWayWritingPersonsDoneMomentsTruthLyingDesireSpeakDealsEmotionFictionEventsDetailsLengthPeculiarPacksInventingFiction WritersDevious Book:The Left Hand of Darkness Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.” LyingFiguresSpeechPacksImagery Author:Plutarch
“You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack.” FirstsRunningLyingTravelPlanesBagsRunning AwayPacks Author:Mary McMullen