That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“One day', he said, 'the King of the Butterflies sent an emissary to discover the nature of fire. Some time later the… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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“None of the harvest tales started out as parasites. They were the most powerful pieces of the narrative, once upon a time.… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!'… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“My mother had comforted me with tales ever since I was small. Sometimes they helped me peel a problem like an onion,… — Anita Amirrezvani Copy Share Image
“This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more… — Donna Jo Napoli Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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