Writing: Truthful or imaginative?

S: Only truth in our writing sets us free. We should be as truthful as possible in our writings.

J: But what is truth? Harry Potter became so famous, but is it true?

R: If you discount the dragons, Harry Potter is full of the truths of boyhood and growing up.

J: But why should you discount the dragons? That's what makes the story beautiful and enjoyable.

S: Because we take away the truth of human emotional experiences from every work of art, that's the most important part.

R: Then what is the truth in my story called Pareli, in which three children murder their errant father?

S: That contains your truthful protest of the patriarchy.

R: What about my teenage romances?-

S: Aren't they your longing for that kind of romantic love?

B: If you are gonna do that sort of Freudian analysis, you are going to find that truth in everything!

R: But you cannot do that, because the writer dies after he or she creates the work of art. The truth of the art lies in whatever the viewer makes of it, not in the artist's psychological traumas.

Y:That is not true. No matter what you write, your self is reflected in it. Even if you try to deceive, that deception is also a part of you.

J: Indeed there is no such thing as imagination. You cannot imagine things you don't know. If if you try to imagine figures in a cloud, you will only see things you already know.

L: But we need to be imaginative in art, or else art gets boring!