I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.

No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them…

— Roxane Gay

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope

“She is both the bookends and the stories between.”

— Kirk Diedrich

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

— Alistair Cooke

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and…

— Brian Jacques

The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it…

— Juliet Marillier

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized…

— Lois Lowry

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

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

— Damon Lindelof

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

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— John Berger

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

— Trudi Canavan

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