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I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.