I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...' to allure and spellbind an audience.

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

'So what happens next?' 'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.' 'Like any other story, then.'

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in allplaces, in all times.

Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhapsd their ultimate power is found in how they inspire us to action.

A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.