Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Storytelling involves shaping raw experience into myths and larger narratives.
- In plain terms
- Art involves changing and expanding real life into stories.
- What can you take from it?
- Narrative reshapes experience to create meaning and myth.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you shape your own story?
- Is truth important in fiction?
Another view
Fact and honesty are also valuable in storytelling.
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