Afternoon Quote by Ann Romney

'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story…

— Andrew Sean Greer

If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll…

— Jillian Medoff

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

— Jack Kerouac

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

— Mahesh Bhatt

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.…

— John le Carre

I tried to write about my first marriage in a fictional version but got two pages into it and realised it was too personal.…

— Lisa Jewell

I like stories that affect families.

— Shepard Smith

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

— Mick Jagger

Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.

— Richard Flanagan

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the…

— David Leavitt

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in…

— Alice Hoffman

In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final…

— Sarah MacLean