Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
George R. R. MartinOne of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.
George R. R. Martin