The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things.

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

I have no problem at all taking my shirt off to tell a story.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

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