What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I ….

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story.

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning..

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward..

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in th….

What is China but a people and their stories?.

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story..

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel..

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it.

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story..

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me..

You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories..

Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream..

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to….

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act..

I start a picture and I finish it..

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you..

People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all..

White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins..

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it..

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I m….