Jan Donley

"We Tell Ourselves Stories"

Photograph of Jan Donley

In her essay “The White Album,” Joan Didion writes, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

I like stories that take me into landscapes foreign yet familiar because I think the paradoxical yearning for change and sameness makes us characters in our own stories—drives us forward and makes us wonder just how closely linked truth and fiction really are.

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All writings © Jan Donley 1985-2010
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