To me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved..

She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was ….

Curb Your Enthusiasm set me up so perfectly. That was one of my favorite shows before I got on it. That started a whole different level of a story fo….

The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me..

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is..

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type..

The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inh….

What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story..

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market..

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories).

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a ….

When you have fans telling you their stories it makes you feel like you're not alone..

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten..

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature..

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it..

Basically ... out of all the ridiculous religion stories which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous—the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah ... the….

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large….

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction..

Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories..

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things..