I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It’s also about politics.

Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on...

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button at just one moment to stop everything that came after. I had so...

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won’t sleep without one story, at least.

Most of the movies are working like, ‘Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut’ and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information – I try to involve,...

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

People who are left alone tell the story but are never a part of it; those who are a part of the crowd, are story bound, acting upon the role assigned to them in the...

The story of getting there is greater than the story of being there. Wherever your there might be.

We tell the stories we have to tell, stories of the things that draw us in-and why should any of us have more than a handful of those? The only work really worth doing-the only...

A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands.

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but...

I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called ‘The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.’

And now the story begins for the last time.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You’re online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It’s a job that you never push aside.

There aren’t a lot of female story artists, and it’s baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, ‘Where did they all go?’ People have brought...

Every ounce of his soul tells him this will make a good story to tell his friends—an anecdote in the biography, an incident in the life. But part of the sorrow he feels—and it is...

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

Just do it. Now.

Writing nonfiction means I tell people’s stories for them, not because they’re special but because we all are.

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story...

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative...

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can’t see the image of God?

It is pleasant to walk your dog beside a lake in winter in a tropical place because all of the black ducks waddle up the ryegrass bank and pluck the seed with their small gray...

There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.

To me, ‘Blue Like Jazz’ is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don – raised Christian and go off to college only to abandon their beliefs in order to fit in...

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

Nine days after Perreault first saw the woman in black, an Indonesian mother of four came out of her tent long enough to claim that the mermaid had risen, fully-formed, from the very center of...

Our children’s children will hear a good story.

With young people, it’s how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it’s about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you...

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice. . . . It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It’s the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It’s just bad writing, really. And it’s...

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

I don’t stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.