The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.
Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it's been used to tell bad or boring stories, it's not a problem with comics; it's a problem with the writers of those comics.
. . . each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.
I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.
Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?
My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.
A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child
The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.
Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.
I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.
History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
