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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of li..."

"You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because..."

"There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth."

"[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter n..."

"But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it."

"You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits."

"All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it n..."

"Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself."

"One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable."