David Wright

For better or worse, our species’ defining trait is Story. We are immersed in it, waking and sleeping. We parse these stories into seemingly exclusive categories such as science, politics, and humanities; history, biography, and fiction; books, movies, and songs, but they all stem from our perhaps unique instinct for perceiving the world through story. As Nancy Huston writes in The Tale Tellers, We alone see our existence on Earth as a path endowed with meaning (and direction). An arc. A curve that takes us from birth to death. A shape that unfolds in time, with a beginning, a series of adventures, and an end. In other words: a narrative.