I fall in love with certain stories. Those stories tend to…

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating…

— Karen Thompson Walker

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more…

— Jess Walter

When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change…

— David Grann

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination…

— John Allen Paulos

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

— Steve Earle

When you look around, and very close trusted people who would never cash you in, for lack of better words, and those people do…

— Kate Gosselin

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat.…

— Rahm Emanuel

Certain stories, like my mom leaving when I was 15-years-old to go back to China because she didn't quite assimilate like we did, that…

— Jimmy O. Yang

In essence, big stars come with a set image, and breaking it becomes a task for certain stories.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

— Hugh Bonneville

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we…

— Nick Flynn

I find that you're drawn to certain stories, and there's something about fairytales that have deep roots. They connect really deeply to you, and…

— Glen Keane

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

— Sherwood Smith

As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world,…

— Kevin Keck