word - true

the great idea True, an emotionally charged symbolic construct ... we must first stare thoughtfully and long at a tree, Old English treow, which gave us the word true (treow), the "deeply rooted" idea.

Nicholas Delbanco

"... by the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs as a writer of fiction: love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt, fear of death."

[John Gardner - "The Art of Fiction"]