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The Storytelling Animal
The writer is not, then, an all-powerful architect of our reading experience. The writer guides the way we imagine but does not determine it. A film begins with a writer producing a screenplay. But it is the director who brings the screenplay to life, filling in most of the details. So it is with any story. A writer lays down words, but they are in
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Benyamin Elias added 8mo ago
All of this research shows that we are the great masterworks of our own storytelling minds—figments of our own imaginations. We think of ourselves as very stable and real. But our memories constrain our self-creation less than we think, and they are constantly being distorted by our hopes and dreams. Until the day we die, we are living the story of
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sari added 6mo ago
We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.
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Debbie Foster added 5mo ago