Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
Antoine Richis: Forgive me... my son.
Jessie: That was definitely Woody's finest hour!
Buttercup: My name's Buttercup. You've met Baron von Shush.
Slinky Dog: I thought we were going to the attic?
Ken: No one appreciates clothes here, Barbie! No one.
Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.
What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put ...
I see myself as a Scottish sky: there are rain clouds, rainbows and sunrays that run and overtake one another, mingle together and dance with each other! You see all of this within seconds of looking up! It’s a living sky, it breathes and it’s re...
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock ...
You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is. It's like if you snapped your fingers and produced a rose but it w...
Love is a word that is overused these days, due to other lesser feelings often being mistaken for it. Infatuation, admiration, and attraction can pose as love, and can sometimes overwhelm us and fool us into thinking that we have found the real thing...
You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some kinds of molecules to pass from the bloodstream into the brain. Emotions can easily pass from the fictional world into the re...
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the on...
Sometimes, I think our lifestyle has become the victim of a “World of Kinkcraft” gamer mentality, where people just want to download a cheat sheet or a step-by-step walk-through. Many newcomers yearn to "learn the rules" of the lifestyle as quick...
