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I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.

Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore someone's culture, you can explore their experience, you can explore an issue through human beings who are going through it.

Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.

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