“you have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are told.”

“When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.”

“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”

“"Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous."”

“The truth about stories is, that's all we are.”

“There are no truths, Coyote,” I says. “Only stories.”

“Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.”