A moment is a long story short.
I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.
And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
I think I'm always drawn to a good story.
It's no sin to tell a good story.
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
A story just isn't a story without a dragon.
When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.
Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
I'm always a sucker for a love story.
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
Having low self-esteem and a shield of lard are not guarantees of safety. Having a warrior spirit, high self worth (most people are assaulted by someone they know, so if you think you're only worthy of hanging out with controlling low-life's, that's ...
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscap...
Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to ear...
Studying the world's oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked like without it. Writing as I would define it serves to re...
He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting, and obsessively re-polishing lines and paragraphs with a jeweler's precision. But it was not good eno...
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it ...
When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary ta...
