Stephen Graham Quotes

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of the classroom.

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

Don’t let anybody ever tell you life’s fair. Not as long as I’m in it.

Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all.

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

I'm all right, " I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.