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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty whe...more

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People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

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People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it m...more

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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty ...more

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Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of ...more

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Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths tha...more

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The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about...more

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Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

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- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People.- No, Monsieur Robespier...more

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Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. ...more

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Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are currency that we share with those who walked the world ...more

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We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

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Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more las...more

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I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.

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She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.