“I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.”

“Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters is that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.”

“i think anyone who loves good and true stories you have to read g-spot and you will not want to put it down and you might want to read it again.”

“I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.”

“He wants to put his story next to hers.”

“I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?”