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If stories are our way of making sense of the world, being poor at telling them must surely negatively impact our lives.
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
We are addicted to telling stories, both those we tell ourselves and those we tell others.… Read more
It was years of cast-off story fragments and untold wild fantasies that finally formed the foundation on which to build my novels…
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Throughout my life I’ve told myself stories, many of them messy fragments with neither a beginning nor an end.… Read more
Stories are our way of making sense of a senseless world. As such, they are a great strength, making thought and action meaningful. But they are also our greatest weakness, because we blindly believe them to be true.
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Carefully crafted stories can help stave off anxiety due to uncertainty about the future by inspiring individual narratives of ways forward.
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Anxious? It’s hard not to be. Just turn on the radio or the television or browse the Internet, the news is an unending tale of woe.… Read more
Listen to the author reading The boy who told himself stories.The beginnings of the story…
Even as a kid I used to tell myself stories. All the time. In my bed, at school, on the high street, in the library, on the bus home or the train, out on my bike roaming the countryside.… Read more