I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.
Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.
I’m a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.
This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
I don’t want to steal anybody’s story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.
Because we fail to listen to each other’s stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.
Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go.
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way.
Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.