“Sad stories make good books”

“stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions”

“There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.”

“While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.”

“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.”

“The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?”

“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”

“There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.”

“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.”