I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby.'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

I have stories. But stories are not facts.''I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the time they're better than facts.

Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end.

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.

I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.

There are three points about stories: if told, they like to be heard; if heard, they like to be taken in; and if taken in, they like to be told.

There's more to stories than it seems at first looking," she said. "Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.