From the current work in progress, the almost completed FOOL’S HOLLOW, Book One:

“Some of the greatest storytelling comes from subtle, subliminal changes, from the unconscious mind welling to the surface in the course of telling the tale. That is how stories pass on their deepest truths — not the truths that the teller believes they believe, or think they ought to care about, but rather the truths that they believe without question and care about most deeply. A story may not be true when it begins, but often acquires its truth in the act of the telling.” — James A. Owen