“Sure, I made up parts of my book. I've never admitted that before, but I am willing to say it now. The truth should not stand in the way of a good story. In fact, the most accurate stories are fragments of a person’s imagination. Writers who place emphasis on the truth do so at the expense of great stories. My best stories are completely false.”


1. Rewrite this quotation as the lede to your story. (Paraphrase the quotation.)

The truth should not stand in the way of a good story,award-winning journalist Jonathan Fabulist said in his admittance of fabricating parts of his auto-biography.

"Writers who place emphasis on the truth do so at the expense of great stories," he said. "My best stories are completely false.”