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she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

I think, ultimately, people are looking for real heartfelt true stories. They want to engage with them, they want to relate (to) them and, ultimately, they want to have hope.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.

I'm the type to tell stories while letting myself go.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's got something to say.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made.

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you.

I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I write about have a core of "this actually (could have) happened."

It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people.

When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.