The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them.

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love..

The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now..

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work..

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it..

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story..

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dr….

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures..

I've been racketeered on..

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the ser….

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day..

I have eaten too many types of cuisines and food. For me, every dish has their own taste and story. I can't pick the best dish I've ever had, simply ….

Either is both, and Both is neither..

Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live..

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? ….

When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth..

It's great to represent things that are not represented..

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script..

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry..

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is..

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness..