“There's a story that needs to be told : and as its mine I am the only one who can tell it right”

“As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.”

“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending...But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”

“If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)”

“It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.”

“Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.”