We must curb our fury and allow sadness to dminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation. - M T Anderson We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation. - M T Anderson How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out? - Rene Auberjonois Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out. - Paul Auster If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. - Lemony Snicket ... although I knew what issues had been most difficult for me in my life, I may not have known the depth of the feeling I had about them.... When those stories, with their feelings, returned... I paid attention to them. What I tell people now it, 'Try to keep your mind hospitable. This needs to visit for a while. Don't be afraid.' [p. 122] - Sylvia Boorstein Th...

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? - Mark Twain I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? - J R R Tolkien People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it. - Cecelia Ahern It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children unders...

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band. - Lisa Loeb Teddy looked at him directly for the first time. Are you a poet?' he asked. A poet?' Nicholson said. 'Lord, no. Alas, no. Why do you ask?' I don't know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.' " - Teddy and Nicholson in "Teddy" (Nine Stories) - J D Salinger

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. - Brian Aldiss Are you going to tell me what that was about?" Adam asked as we went back upstairs. "Sometime," I told him. "When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you. - Patricia Briggs All love stories beget ghost stories. - Sarah Blake You get to tour some of the historic homes and listen to ghost stories." "This is what people do in small towns?" "We could either do that or go sit on my porch, chew some tobacco, and play banjos. - Nicholas Sparks What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us. - Chuck Palahniuk He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself...

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance. - Edwidge Danticat I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything. - Roma Downey A blanket could be used as a screen to project animated bedtime stories onto, and also a place to project your fears about society not being accepting of adults who watch movies directed at an audience of four-year-olds. Trust me, I've been there26 years ago. - Jarod Kintz Sacred bleeding fuck, I said, because, I mean its one thing to know your crazy hocus brother sees ghosts, and a whole different thing when you find out they're telling him bedtime stories. - Sarah Monette I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him tel...