Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.
We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.
You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
Wherever people go to find peace - that's what I find in the ocean.
I’m reminded of a story I told my 5th grade class in the 4th grade.
Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.
Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.
What's a wingding? Why, a wingding is, uh...it's just like a shindig but without all the hullabaloo.
Voice is really about letting your characters loose.
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
I don't really look for a script and go, 'I need to do a thriller, so I'm going to do this.' I just read scripts and look for the best possible story.
I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!
