Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally..

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually ….

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling..

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertine….

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size..

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]..

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and th….

We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream..

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time..

But this too is true: stories can save us..

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….

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story sh….

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening..

When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world,….

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again..

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time..

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories..

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention..

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….