Always Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

— Jane Yolen

The ghost story is a popular genre of mine and is particularly adaptable to the visual media.

— Ruskin Bond

Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy…

— James Dashner

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

— Chris Bohjalian

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

— Talulah Riley

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

— Chris Bohjalian

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit…

— Armistead Maupin

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

— Sergio Aragones

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

— Nicholas Sparks

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me…

— Alberto Manguel