Art Quote by Katharine Susannah Prichard

Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of…

— Milan Kundera

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

— Brad Meltzer

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

— Greg van Eekhout

Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the…

— Marisha Pessl

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories…

— Geraldo Rivera

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world…

— John Green

I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There…

— Keith Johnstone

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

— Judy Garland

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes…

— Molly Antopol

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of…

— Sadegh Hedayat

I'm all about the story. And the stories I remember tend to be the ones of sorrow, or family history, or revelation of the…

— Fiona Bruce

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious…

— China Mieville