“The story is what connects us. My story. Your story. Our story.”

“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.”

“But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.”

“As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.”

“Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.”

“Being a writer is a good, good thing.”

“If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.”

“Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story.”

“He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.”

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.”[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”

“You are never too old to become younger!”

“Make up a story… For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul.”

“Your life is a story told about you not the one that you tell”

“Beauty is not found in uniformity,nor value in conformity. It is in ourcolors and quirks and flaws and scarsthat true beauty and value unfold,because that is where our stories are told.”