"Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story." -Tim O'Brien
All of that is true, but my personal belief is that the importance and value of stories is so great, because they form a creation of the thoughts, feelings and perception of one or more human beings and let you experience all of them.
