"All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going lo...
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
~ Neil Gaiman ~
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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"The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i
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"When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories.
"I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.
"There is another version of the tale. That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private language that the men-children are not taught, and ...
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"We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as be...
"We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.