Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open – the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open – the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants (Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?)