As she then said: Telling stories is a fundamental part of being human. ‘It’s how we understand the world around us and how we convince others to work with us to change it. It is also — and anyone who sat with a child will tell you this — a profoundly and often wildly creative act. Telling stories is the way we take the complicated emotions and weird spirallings of imagination inside us and give them shape and form. It is how we show who we are to the world.
