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..

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another..

Is there life in other families?.

I always wear the same thing onstage..

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less int….

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers..

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate..

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it..

Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong ….

Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead..

This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story..

I'm a very conceptual writer..

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker..

Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives ….

That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a ve….

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support..

It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there..