We don't have time to be sad.

Downstream is always someone else's up..

I prefer to remain anomalous..

Read, read, read, read and then read some more..

Money doesn't make u happy .. But happy makes you money..

Go ahead and do what you're doing..

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the bes….

I'd rather have happiness than money..

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules..

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded..

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place..

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush..

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yo….

Don't just count your days, make your days count..

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it..

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved..

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories..

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong..

Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a p….

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you..