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I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.
JERRY HELLER I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I k...
JOHN D. VOELKER![]()
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, moral...
KARA WALKER As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.
MARY KAY ANDREWS![]()
I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.
NAFISA JOSEPH![]()
You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful a...
LAINI TAYLOR![]()
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, m...
KARA WALKER![]()
... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.
SHANNON HALE![]()
As a child I loved ghost stories.
REBECCA HALL![]()
Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter&...
MICHAEL DIRDA This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell s...
DARIO ARGENTO When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.
SLICK RICK![]()
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN![]()
In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous...
TERRI WINDLING![]()
The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually c...
TERRI WINDLING![]()
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively...
TERRI WINDLING![]()
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to ch...
MIKE MYERS They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of meta...
JANE YOLEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ...
JACK ZIPES My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol ...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not unde...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and defi...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD![]()
No lies, I thought, but lots of stories. True stories. True lies. Powerful stories, heroic tales, an...
DOROTHY ALLISON The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD![]()
Fairy tales for adult readers remained popular throughout Europe well into the 19th century — part...
TERRI WINDLING![]()
As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was s...
SUSANNA MOORE My tomatoes taste like tomatoes used to taste, ought to taste and still do taste.
GEORGE DACY I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
OTTO PENZLER![]()
Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.
CECELIA AHERN I had one proprietor of a struggling bed and breakfast tell me, 'People want a ghost. I have to pay ...
JOE NICKELL![]()
It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and...
HOLLY BLACK![]()
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE![]()
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE![]()
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales a...
AMY TAN![]()
I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or d...
GILLIAN FLYNN Why am I always looking at life through a window?
DANIEL KEYES My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a pri...
DANIEL KEYES ...but what they don't understand is that I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew ex...
DANIEL KEYES And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my ...
DANIEL KEYES I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others...waiting.
DANIEL KEYES Am I a genius? I don't think so. Not yet anyway. As Burt would put it, mocking the euphemisms of edu...
DANIEL KEYES Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understa...
DANIEL KEYES No, you don't understand because it isn't happening to you, and no one can understand but me. I don'...
DANIEL KEYES Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world ...
DANIEL KEYES The feeling of cold grayness was everywhere around me-a sense of resignation. There had been no talk...
DANIEL KEYES Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here...
DANIEL KEYES You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you...
DANIEL KEYES I may not have all the time I thought I had...
DANIEL KEYES All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the l...
DANIEL KEYES Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to ...
DANIEL KEYES The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?
DANIEL KEYES Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.
DANIEL KEYES![]()
I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another sol...
ANDY TAYLOR![]()
Most of the catfish you find at the fish counter has been farmed. Though I usually prefer to buy and...
TOM DOUGLAS I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told lon...
KERRY GREENWOOD To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to tell...
VAL EDWARD SIMONE I tell people to do something for themselves at lunch. It doesn't matter whether it's having a manic...
AUDREE HALASZ Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C...
RANSOM RIGGS![]()
I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years.
DARREN ARONOFSKY![]()
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of wh...
SHAWN MENDES![]()
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain...
WOLE SOYINKA Dyes age differently. Old yarns used natural dyes, like vegetable dyes. Chemical dyes don't loose th...
JEFFREY SMITH Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
BRIAN W. ALDISS Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
BRIAN ALDISS![]()
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I wo...
SUKARNO Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of dat...
STEVEN LEVITT![]()
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run...
G.K. CHESTERTON I want to have a lengthy career. I want to play interesting characters. I want to tell beautiful sto...
JOVAN ADEPO I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vi...
CHINA MIEVILLE Then a person has only one tale?”
No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” ...
CHRIS WOODING Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Each time I discovered a potential link between one character’s story and another’s, several mor...
RICHARD SCARSBROOK![]()
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for somet...
JANE GOLDMAN I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
ED GREENWOOD Adults don't take fairy tales seriously but just see them as reading for children. I have found fert...
DAISUKE TAKAHASHI![]()
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.
JESSICA SZOHR![]()
I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like p...
GARY VAYNERCHUK![]()
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE In some strange way, this was meant to be.
JOEL GRETSCH I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH
JERRY HELLER I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I k...
JOHN D. VOELKER
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, moral... KARA WALKER As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.
MARY KAY ANDREWS
I used to love dogs until I discovered cats. NAFISA JOSEPH
You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful a... LAINI TAYLOR
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, m... KARA WALKER
... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it. SHANNON HALE
As a child I loved ghost stories. REBECCA HALL
Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter&... MICHAEL DIRDA This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell s...
DARIO ARGENTO When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.
SLICK RICK
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous... TERRI WINDLING
The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually c... TERRI WINDLING
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively... TERRI WINDLING
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to ch... MIKE MYERS They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of meta...
JANE YOLEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ...
JACK ZIPES My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol ...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not unde...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and defi...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
No lies, I thought, but lots of stories. True stories. True lies. Powerful stories, heroic tales, an... DOROTHY ALLISON The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Fairy tales for adult readers remained popular throughout Europe well into the 19th century — part... TERRI WINDLING
As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was s... SUSANNA MOORE My tomatoes taste like tomatoes used to taste, ought to taste and still do taste.
GEORGE DACY I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
OTTO PENZLER
Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. CECELIA AHERN I had one proprietor of a struggling bed and breakfast tell me, 'People want a ghost. I have to pay ...
JOE NICKELL
It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and... HOLLY BLACK
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales a... AMY TAN
I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or d... GILLIAN FLYNN Why am I always looking at life through a window?
DANIEL KEYES My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a pri...
DANIEL KEYES ...but what they don't understand is that I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew ex...
DANIEL KEYES And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my ...
DANIEL KEYES I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others...waiting.
DANIEL KEYES Am I a genius? I don't think so. Not yet anyway. As Burt would put it, mocking the euphemisms of edu...
DANIEL KEYES Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understa...
DANIEL KEYES No, you don't understand because it isn't happening to you, and no one can understand but me. I don'...
DANIEL KEYES Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world ...
DANIEL KEYES The feeling of cold grayness was everywhere around me-a sense of resignation. There had been no talk...
DANIEL KEYES Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here...
DANIEL KEYES You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you...
DANIEL KEYES I may not have all the time I thought I had...
DANIEL KEYES All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the l...
DANIEL KEYES Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to ...
DANIEL KEYES The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?
DANIEL KEYES Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.
DANIEL KEYES
I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another sol... ANDY TAYLOR
Most of the catfish you find at the fish counter has been farmed. Though I usually prefer to buy and... TOM DOUGLAS I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told lon...
KERRY GREENWOOD To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to tell...
VAL EDWARD SIMONE I tell people to do something for themselves at lunch. It doesn't matter whether it's having a manic...
AUDREE HALASZ Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C...
RANSOM RIGGS
I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years. DARREN ARONOFSKY
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of wh... SHAWN MENDES
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain... WOLE SOYINKA Dyes age differently. Old yarns used natural dyes, like vegetable dyes. Chemical dyes don't loose th...
JEFFREY SMITH Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
BRIAN W. ALDISS Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
BRIAN ALDISS
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I wo... SUKARNO Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of dat...
STEVEN LEVITT
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run... G.K. CHESTERTON I want to have a lengthy career. I want to play interesting characters. I want to tell beautiful sto...
JOVAN ADEPO I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vi...
CHINA MIEVILLE Then a person has only one tale?”
No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” ...
CHRIS WOODING Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Each time I discovered a potential link between one character’s story and another’s, several mor...
RICHARD SCARSBROOK
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for somet...
JANE GOLDMAN I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
ED GREENWOOD Adults don't take fairy tales seriously but just see them as reading for children. I have found fert...
DAISUKE TAKAHASHI
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch. JESSICA SZOHR
I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like p... GARY VAYNERCHUK
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE In some strange way, this was meant to be.
JOEL GRETSCH I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH
Liars need to have good memories. 
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ... 
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. 
A calcined, scalped, rasped, scraped, flayed, broiled, powdered, leprous, blotched, mangy, grimy, pa... 
Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and div... 
Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean. 