“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.”

“What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.”

“Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.”

“Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.”

“Maybe, in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters.”

“Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

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

“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.”

“The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.”