The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story..

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song..

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God..

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows ….

Kill the ones that eat us. Eat the ones we kill.

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money..

There is never only ONE of anything in nature..

Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences….

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind..

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash..

Life can't be cured, but it can be managed..

So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining..

Where there's a will there's a detective story..

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight..

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories..

Don’t be against things so much as for things..

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is..

An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author..

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard..

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you an….

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives..