I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.
I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories.
Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story!
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
I know I'm a good person.
Of course I have a personal life.
I'm shy in my personal life.
One person's religion is another person's cult.
Did it matter? George thought perhaps it did, and not in terms of finding truth or of any hope of discovering what really happened at any given moment. There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth matter...
I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you rea...
...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, someti...
Ah—now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while a story with Death might be true, a story with a king in it is always a fairy tale. But remember, this comes from a time when kings were as common ...
Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, b...
