When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive….

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely ….

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all..

The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for ar….

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up..

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain..

I came up with a story and I wrote it..

One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story..

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times..

After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Ho….

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an a….

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story..

I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane..

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs..

As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you're not identified with the story unfolding there..

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that J….

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western..

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story….

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story..