Quotes on Inventing Stories

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.