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I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th...

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey

But I did love stories. I love fairy tales and I love spooky stories. Anything with a good 25 to 30-minute brain trip for me to go on. I still like to be read to.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about fairy tales, brain, love, good, good luck

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like...

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Quote by Nat King Cole about music, fairy tales

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories...

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Quote by Alice Ann Munro about memory, people

And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, death

I construct timelines for each story and a master...

I construct timelines for each story and a master timeline for sequencing the stories in the volume.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love

My parents might say that I started telling stories when...

My parents might say that I started telling stories when I learned to talk and decided that I'd become a writer the day I recognized a typewriter.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about parents, writers, day

Our little writer's colony existed for about three years...

Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about creation, unforeseen, poetry, things

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of...

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about thinking, real estate, life

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one...

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

Quote by Victoria Abril

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about love, reality, things, world

My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about end, writing, idea

There are other stories about Italians I'd like to tell...

There are other stories about Italians I'd like to tell that have nothing to do with Westerns.

Quote by Armand Assante about opinion, nothing

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that...

Quote by Orson Scott about salary, teaching, writing, change, work, love, life

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories...

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Quote by Orson Scott

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women...

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about love

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Quote by Danny DeVito about fairy tales, wife

But I think everybody should write. I think those people...

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about nation, people

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

Quote by Glenn Close about home, house

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