In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.
It's a love story, baby, just say, Yes.
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.
History depends on who is telling the story.
You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.
If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.
I'm just one of those hopelessly romantic people so I don't think I'll ever run out of stories. I'm always looking for love. But I'm afraid now - by doing what I do - I've missed my chance to ever find it. That I'm destined to get burned again and again.
You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.
If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.