I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.