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Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.

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

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.