“We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.”

“We owe it to each other to tell stories.”

“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.”

“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things.”

“Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.”

“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.”

“When people tell you there’s something wrong with a story, they’re almost always right. When they tell what it is that’s wrong and how it can be fixed, they’re almost always wrong.”