Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.
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Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.
Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.
As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.
When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
I like it when stories are left open.
If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.
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