“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”

“I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.”

“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”

“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”

“Illiteracy, both in words and numbers, is the foundation of financial struggle.”

“When words are both descriptive and prescriptive, thyey become political words used in struggles for power.”

“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”

“A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken”

“When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.”

“but even if you struggle with the words you want to say, don't give up”