Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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There is something in human beings that loves stories.
People love stories. They need stories.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.
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