My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form..

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best..

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story..

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five mo….

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument..

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ..

Gratitude is what we are without a story..

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it..

I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me..

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a lon….

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value..

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through ….

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime..

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded..

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts..

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the st….

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the ge….

The Freebie cost virtually nothing. We funded the movie ourselves, people got paid, but were mostly paid in the back end, we used one of the cheaper ….

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao..

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork tha….

My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I no….