My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

Once upon a time there was a man with no heart. Drifting through black-and-white life, caring naught for those hurt, and never, ever allowing another near enough to hurt him. Until, on the least likely...

People didn’t know everything then. There were things people had never seen before. Places nobody had ever been. You could make up a story and people would believe it…also maybe it seems like it would...

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work...

You don’t see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part...

My criteria for what makes a book an official ‘favorite,’ is based almost entirely on how desperately I don’t want the story to end.

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

Now Leroux, what think youOf this twist to the story?

When we were trying to get ‘Jersey Boys’ off the ground, I’d get, ‘The Four Seasons? Who’s going to care? There’s the Beatles, there’s the Rolling Stones.’ But people know those stories. Here was a...

If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.

I’ve always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into...

Your love story, I don’t want to give away the ending, but both you and your lover die.

Everyday is judgement day

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

The seventh reader interrupts you: “Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could only end in two ways: having passed all the tests, the...

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is… an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

Behind every drama is a good story…behind every tear is the person who wrote it.

To love someone so deeply is to risk losing yourself forever. Once I admitted my feelings to him, there was no going back—no hope to ever make my heart complete without him

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will...

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child

You can rewrite your personal story!

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the...

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn’t reveal your own personal story.

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story...

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It’s also about politics.

Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on...

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button at just one moment to stop everything that came after. I had so...

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won’t sleep without one story, at least.

Most of the movies are working like, ‘Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut’ and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information – I try to involve,...

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

People who are left alone tell the story but are never a part of it; those who are a part of the crowd, are story bound, acting upon the role assigned to them in the...

The story of getting there is greater than the story of being there. Wherever your there might be.

We tell the stories we have to tell, stories of the things that draw us in-and why should any of us have more than a handful of those? The only work really worth doing-the only...

A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands.

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but...

I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called ‘The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.’