Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions ….

For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote went rapid….

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring ….

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to….

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about..

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it..

A great brand is a story that's never completely told..

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories..

Not everyone's life will be a great love story..

I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from. I feel like I have a history and….

First drafts are for learning what your story is about..

The divine art is the story..

The greatest religions convert the world through stories..

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing..

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in….

The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel..

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting..

It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in na….

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?.

One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is true,….

One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that….