Having had many years of support from BBC Midlands Today, I’m looking forward to presenting and reporting the stories that matter from my home patch,

I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

Your kindness shall be rewarded; come to this place after thirteen moons, and you will find something that will be of great benefit in nourishing you and your children to the latest generations.” They did...

I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.

Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

Sam: I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, ‘Let’s hear about Frodo and the Ring.’ And they’ll say ‘Yes,...

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

Because maybe it’s in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The...

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I’ve done a lot of them.

Jack Into” a better version or experience the story – and our life – in a new way.

Stories are masks of God.That’s a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother’s Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the...

Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways to understand the world around us. Every culture has its creation myth for...

Writing’s funny, it’s like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered...

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it’s all part of the story we...

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

The real problem with stories – if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

It’s sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

To maintain your honesty , one must know to keep alive the spirit of chidhood

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.

I have my own stories. A few are known and some untold. Be a tragic one or a comedy one, stories are meant to end at a certain point. Stories… teach us whether we are...

A king is a king, but a bard is the heart and soul of the people; he is their life in song, and the lamp which guides their steps along the paths of destiny. A...

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

I chase after inspiring stories.

A novel, in which all is created by the author’s whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is worthless.””And yet, I have heard you say that any novel that relieves your...

My entire life, I’ve been fascinated with stories. To everyone else, it seemed like the story itself was enough. But I wanted to know why someone told the story in the first place. Had something...

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer...

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

While the stories are fiction, the journey is real.

And so he set about restoring them, using the tricks he had learned over the years. He went to them, speaking to each of them in tones so low that none of the others could...

Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man – let me offer you a definition – is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he...

Stories nowadays are put in to squares, just like everything else. Stories are ever changing. They are like rivers that flow, but mankind is busy trying to dam them up and as a result, they...

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

But here’s a great thing about stories: they can be retold.

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our people’s stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and...

Stories are light.

People like to say how much they like stuff, but with ‘The Sunset Tree,’ people shared stories about what it meant for them. And that stuff’s so humbling and amazing.

She reminded me that I could write stories,/could be struck by lightning & live.

But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end.