You don't have to do anything..

With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect..

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people..

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext..

I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy..

I complete what I start..

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death come….

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively..

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind..

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell a….

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice..

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie Cellular. I did, and I got the part. It actua….

History will tell the story, America will always stand..

We have learned nothing..

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in syntheti….

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord o….

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing..

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to star….

When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?.

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling..

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really ….