Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creati…”

“She waved through the dirty window from her seat as the train started up. I did…”

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world an…”

“I did not deliberately invent Earthsea, I did not think ‘Hey wow — islands are …”