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


"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

Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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

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

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

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