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Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we ...more

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But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When l...more

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, wheth...more

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We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully an...more

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Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.