I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing….

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they….

If it's not your story to tell, you don't tell it..

No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just lis….

The origin of each story is unique..

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintan….

Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context..

The coolest thing you can become is yourself..

Most of the things that I learn are from the women in my life..

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life..

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in ….

You can’t hate someone whose story you know..

You're only as good as your last story..

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye..

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity..

Love everybody, serve everybody..

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved..

You can't be what you can't see..

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were fu….

I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for me. That sort of instinc….

Necessity is the author of change..