Dalam TED-talk berjudul The Tales of Passion, salah satu pengarang novel favorit saya, Isabel Allende yang menjadi pembicaranya, membuka pembicaraan tersebut dengan mengutip sebuah peribahasa Yahudi:
Selanjutnya, Allende berkata:
What is truer than truth? Answer: The story.
Selanjutnya, Allende berkata:
I'm a storyteller. I want to convey something that is truer than truth about our common humanity. All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.