Stories are a medium in which we keep the river flowing. They are the vessels in which we not only express ideas, but also how we learn from past experiences.
Most of the time I just tell ‘em stories, and if the stories are entertaining, who cares whether or not they’re true?
— What Tom Waits does with his kids.
I think the stories we tell and the way we tell them are far from trivial: this is one of the ways we all grow up and learn to make meaning of the world and learn how to be people.
My mother was as natural with the neighbors as she was with the King of Spain. I learned to tell stories by listening to my mother and sisters. My fiction comes from them.
