“I got sick and tired of all that Purity! Wanted to tell stories..”

Widely quoted, including Freedomways, p. 240 (Second quarter, 1965). This quote was later employed as her epitaph, and used by American singer and songwriter Anastacia at her song Sick and Tired.

I Just Want You, written by Ozzy Osbourne and Jim Vallance.
Song lyrics, Ozzmosis (1995)

Sick and Tired
Anastacia (2004)

Source: The Angel Experiment

On not caring about what other people think about her writing in “An Interview with Amulya Malladi” http://jaggerylit.com/an-interview-with-amulya-malladi/ in Jaggery

Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki
Context: I think there's a compelling nature about talking. People like to talk. In creating wiki, I wanted to stroke that story-telling nature in all of us. Second, and perhaps most important, I wanted people who wouldn't normally author to find it comfortable authoring, so that there stood a chance of us discovering the structure of what they had to say.

Source: On Acting and being a creative, as quoted by The Stage, https://www.thestage.co.uk/qa/actor-ricardo-p-lloyd-i-want-to-tell-stories-that-reflect-people-from-all-walks-of-life, October 26, 2021.

On being able to tell different stories about the Korean American experience in “’So Many Stories to Tell’: A Conversation with Maurene Goo” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/so-many-stories-to-tell-a-conversation-with-maurene-goo/ in Los Angeles Review of Books (2018 Aug 22)