Absurd Quote by Giles Andreae

“I once wrote a book ten stories high. Each story was a story.”

— Jarod Kintz

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the…

— Damon Lindelof

Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.

— Jack Handey

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous…

— Anthony Esolen

Tales are sometimes written in order to relate to real life situations that people have.

— Saaif Alam

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

Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is introducing the…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.

— Chauncey Depew

The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to…

— Marina Warner

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of…

— Walter Scott

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle