What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter..

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality..

By 40, all women are amazing..

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well..

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they….

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself..

One story sounds good until another is told.

Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every id….

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me..

I lived and languished..

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a lit….

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing….

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not..

See, broken things always have a story, don't they?.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay ali….

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies..

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down….

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are..

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end..

No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have yo….

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of….