Age Quote by Roddy Doyle

You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

As a child I had a wild imagination; from the age of seven I'd sit and write epic stories.

— Arlo Parks

If you find yourself caring about old stories and regret the ways in which they slip out of reach of young audiences, you may…

— Michael Rosen

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

— Fred Saberhagen

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

— Len Wiseman

But what I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you…

— Celine Sciamma

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.

— Neil Cross

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

— Colum McCann

I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

— Gore Verbinski

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

— Karen Armstrong

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers…

— Shirley Jackson

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

— Anita Loos