“We write stories about imaginary people in imaginary situations. Then we publish them (because they are, in their strange way, acts of communication — addressed to others). And then people read them and call up and say, But who are you? Tell us about yourself! And we say, But I have. It’s all there, in the book. All that matters — But you made all that up! — Out of what?”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night















