It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going..

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can fi….

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier..

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose..

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see….

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland..

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak..

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth..

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane..

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do..

If wishes were stories, beggars would read..

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic roc….

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story..

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching..

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling..

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity..

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre..

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell..

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there..

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults..

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory..