I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
Lynn Abbey
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
Chinua Achebe
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that... →
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
Kate Adie
Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
Sade Adu
I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
Cecelia Ahern
What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories.
Riz Ahmed