I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear..

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story..

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on B….

Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story..

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels..

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time..

It's very difficult to have a successful series that can continue to capture and captivate an audience and keep people interested. Because the story,….

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me..

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories..

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression..

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like wat….

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean..

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most in….

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more….

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of liv….

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living..

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories..

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do..

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing thi….

Why do you like books so much?” he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. “You never know what you’ll learn when you ope….