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..

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again..

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time..

This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about….

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything t….

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of every….

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation..

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imag….

Picturize, prayerize, actualize..

A miracle is an invitation into a new story..

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back..

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book..

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul.