Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order..

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should….

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell..

Everybody wants a sensational story..

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka..

One truly understands only what one can create..

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing..

But I could be wrong..

Strength is for service, not status.

Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a n….

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story..

I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the ….

Explore everything; keep the best.

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it..

Push on and faith will catch up with you..

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter..

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story..

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes..

What I do is me, for that I came..

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of mo….

Don't go to work to work, go to work to prosper..