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..

Sales fixes everything..

I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a random scattering of colo….

Discern the vital few from the trivial Many..

I always feel emotionally engaged in productions. If I ever get to the point where I don't feel emotionally engaged, maybe I should stop. You have to….

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up..

We are the future, and we hope to be rather than taking us back to a lot of the old ideas..