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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'

False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur in expected ways.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.