I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

Even if you're in charge of the grand story there's still memory. The other stories do not go away.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.

I fell in love with the possibilities of telling the story in the future, and married that quickly.

Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That's one kick-ass dragon. It's basically a giant puppy dragon.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

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