Yarn Quotes
48 quotes by 42 authors
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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
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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
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William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is…
— Victor LaValle
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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
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A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.
— Dashiell Hammett
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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
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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
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There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.
— O. Henry
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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
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A sci-fi yarn that ponders the meaning of time and the importance of evolution while occasionally throwing in some shootouts.
— James Berardinelli
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
— Daniel Dennett
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I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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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: