Little Quote by Chris Van Allsburg

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

— Emma Donoghue

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

— Ann Beattie

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

— Joshuah Bearman

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

— Odilon Redon

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

— James Dashner

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

— Ron Howard

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal…

— Ben Okri

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

— Ben Macintyre

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations…

— Lynn Nottage

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those things will…

— Kate DiCamillo