#story

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"Stories are verbal acts of hospitality."

"Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story."

"Being a writer is a good, good thing."

"The truth of the story lies in the details."

"Sometimes when we say "God is silent,"what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in the blanks of the story we are creating. But with his own stories, the ones we live in, he is seldom silent."

"i immersemyselfin youlikei immerse myselfinto a beautiful story."

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

"Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul."

"I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips."

"If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story."

"Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories."