The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.
Lots of shows get cancelled, and then they never get to end their stories. It's just over.
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.
I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
