Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.
I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not...
If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at loo...
How well do you know the people who raised you? Look around your dining room table. Look around at your loved ones, especially the elders. The grandparents and the aunts and uncles who used to give yo...
Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone who has never known that world.
The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When yo...
One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.
When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.
Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.
...have always been known for their storytelling. It appears to be the supreme expression of their spirit. Perhaps they know that, without a story, there could be no nation, no culture, no civilizatio...
For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them, cognitive function becomes a bore.
If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash an...
داستانها هرگز به پایان نمی رسند. راوی ست که معمولا صدایش را در نقطه ی جذاب و هنرمندانه قطع می کند؛ کلا همه اش همین است.
My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.