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Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

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We owe it to each other to tell stories.

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My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each...more

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Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols ...more

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So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us ...more

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The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and yo...more

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Once upon a time,’ is code for ‘I’m lying to you.’ We experience stories as lies and truth at the same time. We learn to empathize with real people vi...more

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I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true.

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Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.

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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty whe...more

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People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

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People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it m...more

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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty ...more

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Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths tha...more

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The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about...more