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Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Call me Ishmael.

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it’s wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying ‘I,’ meaning ‘we.’

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.