Advice Quote by Anton Chekhov

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

— Brian Azzarello

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

— Anthony Shadid

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has…

— Anton Chekhov

If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting…

— Anonymous

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail,…

— John Hench

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to…

— Leanne Pooley

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I…

— Sharon Creech

I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.

— Kelli O'Hara

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell…

— Nic Pizzolatto

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people…

— Alice Munro

“If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of…

— Vinko Vrbanic

It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.

— Gerard Way