Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.
False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
The telling of stories creates the real world.
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.