Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for my….
It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story..
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories..
In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true sourc….
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible..
But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story..
I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the poi….
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else..
You've heard me talk about the quantum realm in Ant-Man which was certainly designed for that movie and for that story to take the notion of somebody….
Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context..
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century..
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell..
But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell ….
We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it..
Don't have too much story for the time you have..
A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors..
I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with..
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories..
I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away..
You chose me, I chose you. End of story..
When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many deg….