A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

I love it when there’s nothingLeft to see but tiny spots of what’s still lightStories piercing the night.

But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.