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

Rudyard Kipling

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