“Writers are liars” – Erasmus Fry, Sandman 17.
This, the statement of a decrepit, haggard man, is itself untrue. Writing is Truth, or at any rate it should be. More than perhaps any other art form, I think, writing concerns what is True. The genre, the methodology of the writing is irrelevant: if it is to be of any substance whatsoever, it must have at its core some modicum of Truth, some theme that speaks of a greater whole. The vessel can be narrative or exposition, verse or prose. If the theme is True, the final product will be as well.