A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time; unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
A great story is never fully revealed in the first chapter, and a great life is not fully revealed in the first act.
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.