Writer

If every writer starts writing, even quite honestly, about their lives, at some point, it has got to get boring.

So, they come up with stories.

And yet for some reason, those knowingly untrue stories make us feel closer to the writer.

We feel possessive about good writers.

Something seems extremely real about their fictitious worlds.

Generations try to search for and successfully find truth in those stories.

A good writer's job is not to tell you their truth but to help you believe that truth exists.

That truth has its own beauty and its own throne.

A good writer, without telling you anything about them, tells you that just like you, they have laughed, and they have cried.

That they have loved and they have lived.

That, just like you, they know how it is to be just another human in the crowd of billions.

And so, while the so-called truth-tellers and truth-seekers - your critics, your journalists, your leaders, and your intellectuals, are all busy "showing you" a mirror, a good writer becomes your mirror.