To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

It’s not about people believing the story. It’s about you knowing and holding it to be true.

The world of light and starry grace;within your mind I live to trace.Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,lightening my being with dream’s story.I embrace the tree carrying your nameYour unspoken wish : the heart of...

I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one...

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that’s what separates a life story that can influence other people.

We live in the world we made up.

I try to tell a story that’s good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it’s poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don’t reach people,...

All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he would be something less than that, an albino cockroach, a louse. The dungeon did...

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot...

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.

Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was...

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

My first published book, ‘Story of a Girl’, was the fourth book I wrote.

Every story needs to be worth telling.

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me,...

When I decide to write a story, I don’t think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It’s just how...

Everyone today has a story; the world’s an archive.

He gets away with it because he’s strong.”This is the story of mankind.”I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.”Yes. But then I read the newspaper.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path. They loom large because everything in the world of fairy tales is blown...

It’s fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds

The first book I fell in love with was ‘Little Toot,’ the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren’t they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . (quoting an obituary) ‘There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever...

I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I’d heard when I was growing up were simply made up – and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement...

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math.

There’s a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it’s a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone...

The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won’t name the name of the club. We got hired in there to...

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It’s the doorway through which they can’t return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

As I mentioned briefly on the phone, the best thing about the Air Chrysalis is that it’s not an imitation of anyone. It has absolutely none of the usual new writer’s sense of ‘I want...

I’m not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it’s going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story...

He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was...

When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you’ll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone’s...

She’s the main character in her story, just like I’m the main character in mine.

You are not eternal. Leave an eternal mark.

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it’s a four-year story.

It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective...

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you’re dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don’t trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly ‘what’s wrong’ with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don’t identify the name of my condition in an interview unless it’s relevant to the...

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

I think decor says a lot about someone’s social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work – and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.

The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, ‘That guy can write a story.’ It’s prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It’s very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here’s...

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on ‘American Horror Story,’ I’m kind of ready to hurl.