I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.
I have a story to tell you. It has many beginnings, and perhaps one ending. Perhaps not. Beginnings and endings are contingent things anyway; inventions, devices. Where does any story really begin? Th...
(pl. ) of Story
Think about how much of your Bible, Old and New Testaments, is in the form not of doctrinal statements but of stories. Statements declare doctrinal truth; stories illustrate doctrinal truth. Doctrinal...
We read about you to be with you, to walk in someone else's shoes, to experience another life. Some of those lives are hard, and others are easy, but we're with you every step of the way. We read abou...
God is the creator of all good plot twists!
Stories, whether they're good or bad, are expressions of interactions within society. Some may be seen as 'boring', but in their own right, they are still stories to explored. People throughout life h...
I don't write stories, I write characters.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone...
There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches yo...
History is the stories we tell about the past.
Here, there isn't much but stories and rain. And a fella can get tired of the rain.
Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.
I explore the mind of souls in stories.
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.