I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them..

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations..

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away f….

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story..

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story..

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell ….

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker..

But he [Franklin Roosevelt] specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his….

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really ….

When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs..

This is a passion story: my passion, his, ours — yours..

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own..

But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or….

I outlived the bastards..

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it..

In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collectio….

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth inve….

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of….

Discover what you are..

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death..

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story..