Crime Quote by Brunonia Barry

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

— Jeanette Winterson

“I do have a single tale. It is a story of love found and love lost – of ambition and madness – of paradise and torment.”

— Brock Meier

“Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.”

— Katherine Mansfield

“Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.”

— Tobias Wolff

“There are stories that are true, in which each individual’s tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we…

— Neil Gaiman

“The story of a regeneration of convictions - can any story in the entire field of literature be more filled with thrilling and all-absorbing…

— Lev Shestov

“memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it…

— Colm Tóibín

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

“sometimes in life, short-lived STORIES can have life-lasting effects and MEMORIES.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Some people are consumed with thoughts and memories from their past. Their mourning, regretting, rehashing, and begrudging doom them to life imprisonment in their…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“De Profundis by Oscar Wilde (this excerpt inspired my book, The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap. Wilde wrote it to his lover while in prison.)…

— Paulette Mahurin

“In the darkest corners of a writer’s heart, you’ll find the stories that never made it to the page, the ones too painful to…

— Dr. Nitin Chopra