We are the thoughts we choose to keep.
...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.
(pl. ) of Story
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is...
Everything that is old was once new.
Find peace in knowing.
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.
To imagine is to spark beauty in our thoughts.
One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others.
Everyone's got a different story.
Every day sings its own song.
That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.
Love writes without words.
As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our iss...
Listen to what speaks to your heart.
All stories are the sin of their weaver.
Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to the floor from whence it came. Wealth can gray your eyes at the edges, money does not m...
I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is...
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.