If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragrap….

I became more curious about the story behind the story [in the House of Cards]. So what was really going on behind the headline? And it's a little bi….

I like stories that affect families..

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which ha….

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who own….

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I k….

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners..

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaph….

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways..

In the country of the story the writer is king..

According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring….

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later..

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart..

I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me..

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment..

No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story..

Make the customer the hero of your brand's story..

some stories don't need telling.

When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought ….

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it..

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservo….