Yarn Quotes

48 quotes by 42 authors

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the… — David Brin
I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle… — Margaret Fuller
William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you donâ€™t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is… — Victor LaValle
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well… — Wallace Stegner
A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. Itâ€™s not easy once youâ€™re out of the habit. — Dashiell Hammett
Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but… — Catherine Asaro
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could… — Elizabeth Moon
There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands. — O. Henry
I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose… — Tayari Jones
A sci-fi yarn that ponders the meaning of time and the importance of evolution while occasionally throwing in some shootouts. — James Berardinelli
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a… — Ron Miles
I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll… — Karen Allen
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not;… — William Shakespeare
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a… — John Masefield
[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn. — Eric Temple Bell
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that… — Flann O'Brien
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us. — Daniel Dennett
I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life! — Mahatma Gandhi
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters… — Meg Tilly
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing… — Max Lucado

Who Wrote These Yarn Quotes

42 authors contributed a total of 48 Yarn Quotes, led by these top contributors: