You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
Jeff Bezos
People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.
Craig Bierko
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Maeve Binchy
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's... →
Jane Birkin
Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and... →
Conrad Black
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background... →
Michael Caine
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
Morley Callaghan