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In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

I have written stories since I was a child.

I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.

At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community.

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write their take on me as opposed to just printing what I said, because they're asking similar questions so often, sometimes it just sounds like I'm answering the questions different intentionally.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.