“Good stories come from the heart, not the head.”

“It is the silence between the words that makes it a story.”

“Emotions are the primary tool of the Storyteller.”

“If you put a small value on your works, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”

“The biggest obstacle to creativity is not a lack of imagination...but an abundance of fear.”

“That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.”

“Dear God,Reveal to me through stories something of what it is like to walk around in someone else's shoes.Show me something about myself in the stories I read, something that needs changing, a thought, a feeling or attitude.Deliver me from myself, O God, and from the parachial and sometimes prejudiced views I have of other people, other nations, other races, other religions.Enlarge by heart with a story, and change me by the characters I meet there.May some of the light from their lives spill over into mine, giving me illumination where there was once ignorance, compassion where there was once contempt.”