Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.
You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.
Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.
We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.
I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film
My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story.
Stories are flight simulators for our brains.
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me. ' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan. ' Marcus said.
That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.
The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.