There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
When you quit drinking you stop waiting.
Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.
He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.
It’s the simplest things that can convey a message….
On the whole, stories don't write themselves.
Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland.
It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.
If there is such a thing as no guts no glory, then “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a true story.
The original stories are mined out, and all that’s left is fool’s gold.
If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.
Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.
Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
