Stories Quotes · Page 693

I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the…

— John Darnielle

A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.'

— Heather Brooke

You are the effect of your story, that's all.

— Byron Katie

“When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason - we talk…

— Alan Jacobs

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how…

— Thomas Boswell

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands,…

— Alexandra Fuller

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds…

— Steven Tyler

I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o.

— John Flanagan

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

— Faith Prince

I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but…

— Rainbow Rowell

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you…

— John le Carre

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

— Frank Herbert

Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic…

— Laurie Penny

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and…

— Candace Bushnell

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs…

— Eileen Myles

I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the…

— Biz Stone

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating…

— Liza Campbell

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I…

— Josh Gad

When we tell stories about things that are important - love, fear, beauty - we change the way people think about the…

— Theodora Goss

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something…

— Edward Norton

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

— Chris Bohjalian

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can…

— Lawrence Kasdan