Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.
The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.
For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasi...
Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me.
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 the option or we are comparing.
Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, i...
I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think th...
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
HECKLER: Say something funny! COMEDIAN: I don't do requests.
I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?
Funny how I keep forgetting you’re insane.” - Colleen O’Brien
Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh.
Torn clothes are funny … until your dad gets fired.
It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.
I grew up in a very working-class family and also a very fundamentalist Christian family. So, we didn't have access to the arts in the house in any form other than the Sunday funnies.
I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you are dead you are made for life.
