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,….

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

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 can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's unappreciated, that doesn't mean i….

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

I think to me, all songs are stories..

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music..

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story..

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other si….

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether i….

We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For….