I’m a writer. anything you say or do may be used in a story.

They’re criminal, but I’m a villain in someone’s untold story.

I didn’t ‘decide’ to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale…

Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There’s no story there. You’ve got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables, and that’s it. They don’t know how to work. CZW is trash.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

Depending on the story that you’re telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody’s story.

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining...

Brooke might tell a different story, but I’ve always loved the water.

When you direct a movie, you’re basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director’s vision, and I’m totally open for that.

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

When there is nothing to say about a book; we end up saying “Beautiful Story”.

I wasn’t going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and...

I’m very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning’s story, the army intelligence officer who’s being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is...

I can’t honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life...

Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the precise moment that a buyer needs it.Search, a marketing method that didn’t exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and...

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much… and it flows. I’ve tried to go in that direction.

A good story will keep you wondering about what’s happening, what’s going on, where does this go? Now it’s going to go that way, now it’s going to go that way. It has to do...

Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

I see myself as a story teller.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout – rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story – but the chord has to be resolved.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out...

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, ‘West Side Story’ incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

Nobody’s favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody’s favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Well, I think they’re all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it’s the young man or girl who goes through a trial...

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.

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.