“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
“Julian had once told me that a story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”
“...the authors he has himself discovered are his own exclusive territory, like the saloon compartment of a special train.”