Storytelling Is Human and Divine

One day I have to collect all the great insights I've heard and read about stories and this belongs with them.

Along with this one-

"Neither novels nor their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species." - John Green, From the Author's Note to The Fault In Our Stars

And this one-

"Reality is not just the story we are locked into" - David Grossman.

And these two from Rav Nachman of Breslov-

People knock stories, but if stories are somehow lacking depth why did G-d start his book with them?

People think that stories are to put people to sleep but in truth stories serve to wake people up.