Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories..

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks..

Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come….

Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! ... That's the story of Jesus..

Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story..

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and re….

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods..

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone..

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one..

Isn't any friendship a love story?.

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories..

There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to see that..

I think I'm always drawn to a good story.

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it..

A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Perciv….

When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive, it really makes ….

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fi….

I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story..

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive..

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing..

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be"..