Stories Quotes - Page 13

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.

But stories all...

Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else was subjugated to this ruling passion, reading stories. As a consequence, I can barely add a column of double digits, I have not the slightest idea of how a plane flies, I can't draw any better than a five-year-old.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well - and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories - each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."

[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]

So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it –

– we all get to dream.

But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]