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Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

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.

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.