Stories Quote by E. L. James Download Open image “I came up with a story and I wrote it.” — E. L. James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stories
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.' — E. L. James Copy Share Image
I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
People are talking about sex. They're talking about sex with their husbands. They're talking about sex with their girlfriends. They're talking about sex with… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed. — E. L. James Copy Share Image
“It’s about gaining your trust and your respect, so you’ll let me exert my will over you.” — E. L. James Copy Share Image
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art. — E. L. James Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years. — E. L. James Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image