Jenna Wortham Quotes

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

I like to use horror as allegory.

I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and nuances. It's exciting to develop that as a writer.

Sci-fi's great, but you don't have to hit people over the head with it when you're making a social comment. It just inherently exists within the fabric of the story.

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

Everything for me becomes allegory.

I don't like allegory.

I have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

Some stories are true that never happened.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.

I love Fredorator and what they produce and the storytelling of 'Adventure Time'... There's such a dark, adult underlying theme underneath the whimsical, magical children's aspect of their storytelling element.

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it's a better picture than the politicians give you.

Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go through as humans.

'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.