I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.