I started writing stories as a child.
Danielle Steel

My stories are never quite good enough.
Anne Tyler

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.
Lascelles Abercrombie

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
Naguib Mahfouz

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
Naguib Mahfouz

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry Rollins

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.
David Spade

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.
James McAvoy

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
Amy Tan

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
Amy Tan

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.
Sasha Alexander

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.
Morris Chestnut

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
Ken Follett

I have broken a lot of stories.
Robert Scheer

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
Samantha Bee

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.
Pia Zadora

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
Pamela Anderson

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.
Prince William