Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place. - Charles de Lint

There's stories and then there's stories," he said, interrupting her. "The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better.
"The others are just words on a page.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.