This presentation by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie, perhaps unintentionally, reveals the power of publishing better than any single novel or poem or talk by someone who has spent their entire career in the field can express.
Anyone working in publishing today, and anyone who makes a living writing fiction, non-fiction, web copy, newspaper columns, medical pamphlets, catalogs, etc. should watch this video to re-affirm why story telling is imperative and somewhat omnipotent.
If this doesn’t move you, you’re in the wrong field.