And words were not just the pieces of speaking; they were the pieces of thinking. When you wrote them down, you could grasp your thoughts like bricks in your hands and push them into different arrangements.
-- Ted Chiang, "The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling", 2013.
What the hell, here's another (yes, I enjoyed this short story very much
):
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments
-- Ted Chiang, "The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling", 2013.