Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.
Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.