Books Quote by Chinua Achebe

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

— Michelle Monaghan

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays,…

— Chinua Achebe

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

— William J. Clinton

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I…

— Tom Johnson

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

— William Sleator

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

— Charles Kuralt

I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely…

— Patrick deWitt

I have written stories since I was a child.

— Rachel Joyce

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting to me.

— Tasha Smith

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

— Robert Munsch