I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family..

I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing..

No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure t….

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden..

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in ….

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead..

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times..

I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will he….

The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing i….

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a mode….

Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told..

You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories ….

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on..

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film..

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller..

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around ….

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear..

Death makes sad stories of us all..

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story..

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side..

Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness o….