I like telling stories..

What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of st….

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them..

To be a person is to have a story to tell..

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

Thought is the thought of thought..

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which yo….

If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me..

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it..

Time did not compose her..

Everybody sings from their diaphragm..

The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action..

The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes..

You must learn to see, what you are looking at.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature..

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight ….

I love IMAX when it works right..

Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism..

What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping ove….

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself..