I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything..

How many times have I created to destroy?.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to ….

There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, ….

In the end, we'll all become stories..

The only thing we have is each other..

I don't really like Nirvana that much. Sorry, promotional people, Universal. I'm more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre..

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories..

I am always tying up and then deciding to depart..

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories..

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium..

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story..

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging….

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in t….

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story..

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story..

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start..

How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wr….

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as any….

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known..