I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I hav….

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still ….

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high..

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell..

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to o….

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is….

I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Ha….

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story.

I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselv….

Everyone's story matters..

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be..

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you..

I work on stories rather than individual pictures..

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs..

I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and be….

I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take it the wrong ….

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and g….

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together..

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story..

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful..

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell..