Writing Tip:Don’t let the “writing rules” bog you down when you’re writing the first draft; they don’t matter when you’re writing the story, only when you’re editing the story.

Neither the cat nor I missed you while you were gone. It’s worse than that. We danced the visitor-gone dance, flinging our feet (and paws) with particular glee. You remember the dance – the one...

Do you know which is the greatest epic till date?

So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I’d better tell my story before other people told it...

Love? … It’s at the heart of every story.

It was Stevenson, I think, who most notably that there are some places that simply demand a story should be told of them. …After all, perhaps Stevenson had only half of the matter. It is...

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for ‘The Namesake,’ I felt that it had to be a novel – it couldn’t work as a story.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years...

With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ, any person who could tell a story of an apparition, or of a...

Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they’re looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And ‘Scandal’ certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

I’ve made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for...

My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.

If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared – you would not remember its taste.

Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the frontpages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of...

Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing ‘Cum Laude.’ So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of...

Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself stories– the activity seemed to her as unavoidable as dreaming.) Her...

Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.

Tonight, I decided to take a stroll down to my local liquor store. Maybe I’ll find a refreshment to wash down this full moon. I hate showing up & the clerk fucking knows my name,...

I’ve got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody’s story.

She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people...

Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared, taking Patch with him. Grandmama had cleared away the tea. She found her...

New research is lending texture and credence to what generations of storytellers have known in their bones – that books, poems, movies, and real-life stories can affect the way we think and even, by extension,...

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on...

When I first read the story ‘Guts’ in workshop – my fellow writers that I’ve been meeting with for almost 20 years – they laughed; they didn’t have any kind of shock reaction.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs...

The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa,...

I’ve done a lot of theater, and I know that it’s a different audience each time who doesn’t know the story, and we have to tell it.

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

I’m just writing a story that I want to read.

When I made ‘Real Steel,’ the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there’s been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about...

Our love story is not written yet, it is mix of stupidity, fun and devotion.

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it’s better not to tell the truth.

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings...

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it … some stories just don’t have a happy ending.

L’eccesso di orgoglio è un peccato molto diffuso, ma un uomo può frustrare altrettanto facilmente il volere di Dio per eccesso di umiltà.

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a...

A boy with a story must write.

What’s important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will...

I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

I’ve allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful...

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

I’ve always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.