Stories are medicine.
The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.
Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.
It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.
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 could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.
When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.
A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.
It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.
The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.
I just want my stories to be mine.
Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.
Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.
There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.