Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me.
I have my own stories. A few are known and some untold. Be a tragic one or a comedy one, stories are meant to end at a certain point. Stories... teach us whether we are the option or we are comparing.
Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, i...
I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think th...
In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every so often there would be a test. The stories were very short, and there were a whole lot of them on every conceivable subj...
The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the digital age, follow this simple remedy: remember that you dream. For that is ironclad proof . . . that literature—that narrati...
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 used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'
I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
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.
