I wouldn't put me in the same category as they. They collected the stories and made them something other than how they began, something bigger. My stories are smaller, less permanent? I don't know that they'll live quite as long. But I do write them down.
It's not very fair to the stories, is it? Unless they choose who to be told by. But I don't know why they'd choose one person over another to tell them if being told by one meant being known and being told by another meant being dismissed. Stories don't seem to like being ignored at all.