What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems.
Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.
The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.
It has been said that if you don’t see God in the profane and the profound, you’re missing half the story. That is a great Truth.
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out the only thing a story is about you are very probably wrong – even if you’re the author.
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they’re the basic places stories come from. They’re the clay that you make the bricks out of.
Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don’t have their own song.
Of course you don’t believe in fairies. You’re fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn’t a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?
There are a lot of artists who’ve said they’d like to work with me. To be honest, I’m not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.
Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we’re human.
Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.
Every now and then I’ll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn’t have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.