You see, a story is not just a thing told to a child…

Vera said: “Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?” So I told her why. Because if I tell the…

— Nora Ephron

Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother says, You…

— Louise Glück

“And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.”

— Steven Herrick

I know how valuable relaxation is for us all, especially in trying times, so I couldn't be more glad to lend my voice to…

— Rege-Jean Page

“Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it…

— Jamie Weise

“I was told as a child to watch what everyone else is doing and do the complete opposite, I’m glad I followed that advise.”

— Najah Roberts

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

— Herbie Hancock

Being told that your child will be born with HLHS is absolutely heartbreaking.

— Greg Olsen

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even…

— Karl Lagerfeld

“5. My husband's words found their mark, and I recalled something that Zilpah had told me when I was a child in the red…

— Anita Diamant

So what that he had children with other women? He was always truthful, he always told me when another child was on the way.…

— Rita Marley

“If you have told a child a thousand times and he still does not understand, then it is not the child who is the…

— Walter B. Barbe

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some…

— George Carlin

So-called friends who do the exact thing they told you NOT to do...

— Wendy Drummond

I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere…

— Walter Cronkite