It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!.

We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.”.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life..

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story..

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously..

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to ….

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones..

History is the story of warfare between secret societies..

Something may have happened before, and yet this thing that happened just after may be so important that you don't even know about the thing that hap….

We're part of each other's lives. We're in each other's stories..

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus..

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it.".

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a stor….

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object..

Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before you start writing….

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you wil….

Change your story, change your power..

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening..

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other ….

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder..