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….

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end..

Stories are the shortcut to the heart..

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the wo….

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story..

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control….

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action..

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara..