“The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.”
“Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.”
“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.”
“Our stories are the tellers of us.”
“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller”
“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. ”