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...

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.

I really told my story as I saw it in ‘Cross to Bear,’ and I was pleased – and a bit surprised – by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2...

When CNN does a story and then says, ‘Tweet us what you think’ – why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It’s enough...

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...