The Devil’s Advice to Storytellers, by Robert Graves

Blog – Rolf Potts
28/12/2017
The Devil’s Advice to Storytellers, by Robert Graves

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Lest men suspect your tale to be untrue, Keep probability-some say-in view. But my advice to story-tellers is: Weigh out no gross possibilities, Nor yet make diligent transcriptions of Known instances of virtue, crime or love. To forge a picture that will pass for true, Do conscientiously what liars do- Born liars, not the lesser…

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