An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

Azdaha were no joke. ... Not much is known about this dragon {the aforementioned Gandarw}, except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were...

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.

"I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then...

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no...

We all tell stories - to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no...

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

In the words he's free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

And then this happened. And then this other thing happened. Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you about the time this happened. I should've had this book over for a cup of coffee and a chat.

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of...

"Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction."

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

Would you like to hear the night I bravely fought the

and the characters are all invented as to their psychological evolution, though some are based upon those of real persons easily identifiable in that narrative. The drama is that of the actual events...

He's telling Liesel's story to prove to himself that humans can be beautiful and selfless and worthwhile.

After all, it is fairy tales the world wants. Real life is all the 'real life' we want. Give us something better in books.

Oh, the accident necessary to fiction!

"Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!"

Our family has survived a long time. We've weathered battles and transformations, enchantments and floods and fires. We've endured being sent away, and we've coped with evildoers in our midst. If I...

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don't either of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your...

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

{Y}ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.

Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.The storyteller should tell it.

My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions,...