Comments on: Why truth is in stories http://andreaskluth.org/2008/10/10/why-truth-is-in-stories/ What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success And Failure Sat, 26 May 2012 22:08:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andreas Kluth http://andreaskluth.org/2008/10/10/why-truth-is-in-stories/#comment-14272 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:06:33 +0000 http://andreaskluth.wordpress.com/?p=530#comment-14272 I wrote that so long ago, Akshat, I can’t remember why I said that. I think I meant that fictional stories tend to be cleaner. If you’re going to make up a story, you make up a perfect story. But true stories are jarringly imperfect.

In any case, what i said is not true. There are just good stories and less good stories, good storytellers and less good storytellers. Fiction/non-fiction is not the important thing.

]]> By: Akshat Rathi http://andreaskluth.org/2008/10/10/why-truth-is-in-stories/#comment-14266 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:50:20 +0000 http://andreaskluth.wordpress.com/?p=530#comment-14266 “true stories can be more suspenseful and surprising than fiction”.. how so?

]]> By: andreaskluth http://andreaskluth.org/2008/10/10/why-truth-is-in-stories/#comment-217 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:00:34 +0000 http://andreaskluth.wordpress.com/?p=530#comment-217 I know. And, in all humility, that’s what I aspire to have people say about me in about a year….

]]> By: Abhishek http://andreaskluth.org/2008/10/10/why-truth-is-in-stories/#comment-212 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:13:55 +0000 http://andreaskluth.wordpress.com/?p=530#comment-212 She’s a beautiful story teller, isn’t she?

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