“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”
Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
“Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate — like dust.”
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 17 “Gaia” section 5, p. 361
Context: “Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate — like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history — until it degenerates into fables.”
Pelorat said, “We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.”
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