A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.
We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forg...
(pl. ) of Story
Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?
Do you have to do murder?Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got...
A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.
Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else was subjugated to this ruling passion, reading stories. As a consequence, I can barely...
My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.
Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.
You can never know enough about your characters
All Stories are True.
It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people.
At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
Some stories are true that never happened.
A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
I write a lot of environmental stories.
Showing 461 to 480 of 616 results