If you’re well prepared, most interview questions can and should be answered directly. But sometimes you may be asked for information you’re better off not providing. One good way to deflect such inquiries is to answer an interview question with a question of your own.

To succeed in job interviews–especially when the process involves multiple meetings–you need plenty of interview stories, and you need to remember the right one at the right time. Here’s how.

By now, you know that interview storytelling is a crucial job search skill, and you probably know helpful frameworks like STAR, SOAR and CAR. That’s a good start. Now, do you have enough stories? And will you be able to think of the right one when you need it?