He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family.

To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least...

In times like these I always cheered myself up with a certain story. I forgot just when I first heard it, or who I heard it from… but, back when I was young it would...

It’s crazy how you hear the story of The Tortoise and the Hare while growing up, and assume it’s just a nice thing to tell kids—and then you start your career and watch it actually...

Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of has a tradition of storytelling. No doubt stories have touched your...

I don’t have, you know, an ‘overcoming addiction’ story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven’t overcome that. I don’t have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.

Is falling in love with someone’s story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?

It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one’s time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of...

There’s a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It’s a narrative of hope.

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.

It happened to me on ‘King of the Hill,’ where I’d left it before the end and didn’t really participate in the ending, and I always felt a little bit like I wanted to try...

There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the...

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.

One of the pillars of ‘Cyrano’ is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating , among other things, because they are made of those universal things that...

If you are present, then you can see that you give yourself presents in each moment that you can unwrap and thoroughly enjoy – the amazing world around us that we can explore, each incredible...

As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” The battle between these two halves of identity…Who we are and who we prebend to be, is unwinnable. “Just...

Enemies are people who’s story you haven’t heard, or who’s face you haven’t seen.

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

We are all inclined to accept conventional forms or colours as the only correct ones. Children sometimes think that stars must be star-shaped, though naturally they are not. The people who insist that in a...

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else’s story.

Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that’s a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think...

I wrote the chorus specifically for ‘Same Love’ as a narration of my story. I decided to release ‘She Keeps Me Warm’ as an extension of the chorus because I felt like there was more...

If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.

He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens,...

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don’t think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the...

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn— that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong...

I’m a storyteller – that’s my chamber, that’s my box. I’m always tryin’ to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where...

That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime) is what I have no doubt of. In the first place,...

The ending shouldn’t determine the meaning of anything, a story or a life. Logically, I don’t think it can–didn’t Heidegger say something to that effect? That the meaning of all our moments cannot be contingent...

In ‘Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,’ I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God’s grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I’m familiar with. I don’t write stories about the nineteenth century.

I’ve never read ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ although I certainly know what that is. And what I love about that concept is as much as it’s a zombie story, it’s also ‘Pride and Prejudice.’

‘Behind The Candelabra’ is an HBO movie. It’s the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas...

One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story...

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it’s already written.

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn’t anyone?

Isn’t there a flaw in the logic of that phrase – speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn’t know the truth. But power knows the truth just as well, if not better, than...

It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I’m not trying to...

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

I once held a belief that life made sense, that working toward a dream would birth substance. Nothing else mattered. I soon discovered that success is as long-lasting as any of life’s novelties. We’ve all...

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story.

They’re just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don’t think that’s a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you’d have to do it. And I’d want to do it.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo’s vision, ‘I saw the angel in the...

The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can’t write a story where someone is a simple victim because it’s boring.