“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”

“We all need stories. What happens in our daily lives changes our stories.”

“Politics always change. Stories never do.”

“Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.”

“The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That’s really what inspires me.”

“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”

“You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.”

“The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

“A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.”