Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as the mysteries with which they wrestled .. (they) helped the community live though one more darkness, with eyes wide open, and with hearts set alight.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories