The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can't.

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) - ISBN: 9780547644813