From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

- Chris Priestley

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

- Chris Priestley

After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling a…

- Chris Priestley

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

- Chris Priestley