I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will — Bill Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching. — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. — Ira Berlin Copy Share Image
Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but… — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
Everything feels so personal when you're an actor because you're so open and vulnerable, and you have to trust your director to… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
“I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of… — Arlene J. Chai Copy Share Image
You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
“I’ll take all those crimes and robberies, wars and villagers, generals and crooks, that are asleep in the silence of the archives… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too.… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
“He stared and talked at the girl's red hair and amused face for what seemed to be a few minutes; and then,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Lovers of small numbers go benignly potty, Believe all tales are thirteen chapters long, Have animal doubles, carry pentagrams, Are Millerites, Baconians,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
“We each have old stories we make new again, the things we tell and twine from time to time. Everything we constantly… — Will Irby Copy Share Image
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
