I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.
I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagan...
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it….By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in you….Because I’...
I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle.You should, too.
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn— that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones,...
I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
I would have written this next part into the story if anybody would have believed it. But who would have? I was there and I didn't believe it.
I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part...
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where...
It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.
It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not...
Marriageability was the original title of The Harvest.
My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, t...
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