Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.