Bills Quote by Steve Stern

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.

— Bill Cosby

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

— Lisa Tuttle

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier…

— Louis L'Amour

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even…

— Beverly Cleary

I read the newspaper everyday and that is where the stories come from. And I write my own scripts, not assistants to provide 'inputs.'

— Samuthirakani

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I…

— Steve Almond

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and…

— Kathleen Norris

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone,…

— Jay-Z

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

— Ann Patchett

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own…

— Stephen King

People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important.

— Joe R. Lansdale

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

— W. Somerset Maugham