Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.