The World is Full of Stories Just Waiting to be Told

She wrote some stories about what must have been for her the lesson of the folly of her youth, namely the ‘sin’ of fulfilling a story — and inserting it into life through a preconstituted model instead of patiently waiting for the story to emerge, or revealing it in the imagination — insofar as it is distinct from creating fictions — and then trying to stay faithful to it.