Able Quote by Dani Shapiro

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

— David Means

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have…

— Walt Disney

This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Short stories force us to keep our distance from the characters; novels bring us closer to them.”

— David Mikics

We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we…

— Doug Dorst

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

— Jonathan Franzen

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've…

— Morris Gleitzman

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

— Peter Morgan

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

— Neil Gaiman

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

— Mark Twain

I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

— Chelsea Manning