Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.
I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experiences in my own voice.
You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.
I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.
True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.
I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.
We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of people's lives.
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.
I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.
Part of the failure of the corporate media is that they don't dig out stories anymore. They are looking down from the top floors. Media work used to be something that was down on the ground level. Now they are looking out of the windows in the top suites, and they don't know what's going on out there. And then there are the corporate owners who don't want this stuff reported because if one town learns that the next town has defeated Wal-Mart or stopped sweatshop goods, then other towns are going to want to do the same thing.
