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We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.