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Literature

On Stories

“When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place, by the fire, was kept for the Storyteller.” – Introduction, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller There is no such thing as “just” a story. There are good stories, bad stories, uplifting stories, horrifying stories, but they are never “just” stories. Carl Sagan once said, “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." (Cosmos