Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort..

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing one….

Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I alw….

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff..

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure..

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stor….

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it..

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers..

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement..

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me..

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a re….

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtua….

Even if the experience in my stories is not autobiographical and the actual plot is not autobiographical, the emotion is always somewhat autobiograph….

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dra….

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them..

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in..

Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good story… Surrounded by Enemies delivers on both, big….

In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cub….

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplate….

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stori….

I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in "To Kill A Mockingbird," may….