“Trust me, I'm telling you stories…. I can change the story. I am the story.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Written on the Body
“When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.”
Quoted in an interview, "Sendak on Sendak," Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia (2007/2008)
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