Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan. Tracy Austin
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. Italo Calvino
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. Italo Calvino
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. John Green
Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. Michael Bergdahl
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead. Paul Auster
Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word? Bob Uecker
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? Abdul kalam
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. Michael Connelly
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. Barbara Deming
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on. Bobby Thomson
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. Willa Cather
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale. Harold Brodkey
Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on. Justin Cronin
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also. Barbara Deming
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. Harlan Coben
What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories. Diane Mott Davidson