I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a reason we go back to stories that we love - so, even if there is a familiarity, if you can do it a different way and hopefully do it well enough, you actually feel the satisfaction of that anticipation given back to you.
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.
We do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense is the only possible habitation for the burden of our witnessing.
A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.
Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.
I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.
Concrete examples of successful women and their stories of achievement are the best inspiration and [means of] empowerment for other women to seek the heights in their professional career and take a leading role in society.
If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.
Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores. . . it was awesome!
Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.
Sherlock and Watson are a love story
The real story of Detroit [. . . ] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.
Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific requirement, which is that images are used to tell the story. There are lots of crappy movies, with guns and action and Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever.