Do I do as

Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer–like Macbeth’s witches–mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book–telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
A. S. Byatt