If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way..

We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the worl….

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth ….

Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – th….

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth..

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her….

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character..

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

It's very demanding to make up your own music..

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story..

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles..

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and coura….

Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story..

And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story..

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering..

Don't sell your story, just tell your story..

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem..

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel..

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood..

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never….

If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerge….