I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers..

The trouble with Hollywood is that it has poisoned us. If you see a poster of a movie it is mainly the picture of a woman and a man. Always a love st….

Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?.

It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us..

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible..

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are..

The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, ….

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know..

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and ….

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effect….

The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversi….

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story..

All the stories are true.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good..

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something….

Words are how we think; stories are how we link..

In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities..

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and pe….

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like.".

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience..

I think that people have to have a story. When you tell a story, most people are not good storytellers because they think it's about them. You have t….