The telling of stories creates the real world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
The best stories come from real life.
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.
Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
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