I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.
Every great love starts with a great 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...
Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.
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...
Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.
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.
Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.
[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story about Zeb. He is in the middle of his own story.I am not in this part of the story; it hasn't...
A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music
To hell with facts! We need stories!
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
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.