Dead men did tell tales if you knew how to listen.

“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You…

— Michael Chabon

“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”

— Christopher Bram

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

We can never tell what is in store for us.

— Harry S. Truman

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must…

— David Brin

“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

— Tudor Parfitt

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in…

— Eric Kripke

“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.”

— Danielle Ganek

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

— Damon Lindelof

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,…

— Alan Moore