“People have forgotten how to tell a story.”

“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.”

“Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.”

“I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.”

“Funny how a beautiful song could tell such an ugly story.”

“The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”

“Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are those in which the ending is a surprise.”

“I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.”

“Many of the stories economists tell take the form of models—for whatever else they are, economic models are stories about how the world works.”

“I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.”