I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I’d come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by...

A true love story has no endings.

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.

There’s a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you’d have to have more than one...

I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public’s idea of this myth comes from a million different places… I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked...

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else’s. As a kid growing up with books and films and stories...

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

…Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story – then what does that make us?…

Good story’ means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task…But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage,...

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what’s going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you’re in a sales position, if you’re in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without...

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.

God is the story nature tells to those who are listening.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

There’s no reason to worryI started brand new story

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...

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of...

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.

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.

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don’t appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

now-person” and do it now!

Our stories are not new; yet, in the retelling we are reborn as heroes.

My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.

It doesn’t matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie’s not entertaining, if the story’s not entertaining.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story...

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.”[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January...

We are all joined in a circle of stories.

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it’s the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don’t recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a...

There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I’d come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over...

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly–we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an...

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death...

I first saw ‘West Side Story’ on stage in 1958. I was in the army, having been conscripted while under contract to MGM. I caught the musical in New York, fell in love with it,...

If there’s some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I’ve gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.