“Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.”

— Rudyard Kipling

"Fiction", speech to the Royal Society of Literature, June 1926; published in Writings on Writing: Rudyard Kipling (1996), ed. Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis, p. 80 http://books.google.com/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&q=%22elder+sister%22&pg=PA80 <br class="br">Other works

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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

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