Writing

"Stories are fundamental to human life. I think we need stories as much as we need food and air and water and sleep, because stories are the way we organise reality. Reality is a thunderous cacophony of millions of impressions surging in on us at every moment. By isolating fragments of that invasion, and being able to articulate them and then link them over time, which is what a story does, we are enabled to think about ourselves in the present, in the past, in the future. Without stories, we literally wouldn't be able to live."

Paul Auster