... in writing you cannot possibly be interesting if what you say is not true, if it is what I call “a true lie,” i.e., a truth which gives the wrong impression. For no matter how subtly you lie in writing, people know it and don’t believe you, and the whole secret of being interesting is to be believed.
ATTRIBUTION:
Brenda Ueland (1891–1985), U.S. magazine writer. Me, ch. 6 (1939).
