I always liked spy stories.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

— Vladimir Putin

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and…

— Elia Kazan

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of…

— Barry Eisler

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom

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

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

— Kirk Diedrich

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