Benches Quote by O. Henry

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

— O. Henry

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good…

— Irwin Winkler

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

— John D. Voelker

It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

— Dashiell Hammett

One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories,…

— Mary Kay Andrews

“Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.”

— Barbara Bothwell

I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's…

— Debbie Macomber

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never…

— Raymond E. Feist

... everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.

— Kate Jacobs

I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man…

— Flann O'Brien

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

— Edith Pattou