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.

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.

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.

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

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