Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.
Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.
A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.
When an atheist is born, a kitten kills a god.
I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.
One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.
Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.
Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.
The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.
We are pieces of ancient Earth, bits of sacred story soaked in intellect and dirt.
