Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I’m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.
What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
An emotional story is an emotional story no matter how big or small it is.
All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love.
I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.
I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.
Many things make the ideal magazine story. But one thing is that it calls attention to the reader to something that they never would have imagined being interested in. And you leave them with a sense of wonder. I have to think more about this.
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.
Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.
You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.
I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.
If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.
I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.