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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories. — Talulah Riley

In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed — Gayle Forman

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me. — Jonathan Evison

Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told. — Travis Thrasher

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas

We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear. — Nick Harkaway

The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them. — Jonathan Auxier

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible. — Nicholas Sparks

Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell. — Nadege Richards

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script. — Clive Owen

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally. — Gary Gygax

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. — Alberto Manguel

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become. — Jane Yolen

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read. — Shannon L. Alder

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart? — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on. — Jackie Collins

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books. — Lauren Weisberger

As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story. — Ken Liu

That's why people write books and stories, no doubt, to leave some impression behind, to share a sense of the beauty and pain. This — Jess Walter

Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels... — Deyth Banger

The women in my family were hardworking matriarchs. But the stories I saw on TV and movies and even in many books said they were anomalies — Kameron Hurley

If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood. — Sebastian Barry

sometimes stories and books are all that we need to take us away — Susan Ornbratt

I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. — Terry Pratchett

Gusty McCabe, tha's m' name and tellin' stories, tha's m' game, If they all ain't true I ain't t' blame, I'll tell 'em all just the same. — Gusty McCabe

Why books...audiobooks... stories are created?...Films and Games!?

- The answer, is very simple it 's in the name of patience. — Deyth Banger

I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them! — Samuel Colbran

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later. — Patricia C. Wrede

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer. — Sarah Jio

Books, even made-up stories, can't all have happy endings because they reflect the real world, and the real world isn't always happy. — Ada Palmer

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters. — Emily Giffin

My mother was an avid reader ... She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes ... — Adriana Trigiani

The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey. — Stephanie Lovett Stoffel

Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts. — Savi Sharma

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. — Hilary Mantel

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not. — China Mieville

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. — Judy Blume

And opportunities are like stories in books," I retorted. "All we need do is pick one. — C.W. Gortner

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire. — Malorie Blackman

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books. — Sergio Aragones

Life is a rich literature. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep search in sci-fi and many other places books, stories and many other stuff... Keep searching, don't stop and you will find it! — Deyth Banger

Your tills are talking to me and want me to take them home. Does this often happen? — Steven Poore

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years. — Eve Bunting

I'm a book girl
I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down. — Mizuki Nomura

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice. — Sarah Cross

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again. — Mia Wasikowska

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range. — Garth Nix

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways. — Neil Gaiman

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places. — Isabel Allende

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. — Patricia Cornwell

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time. — Caroline Kepnes

I want to bury my head in books like in pillows and breathe in stories like air. — Ksenia Anske

Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What — Terry Pratchett

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman

There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words ... — Lindsay Eland

Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. — Nina Sankovitch

I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my subconscious gives me. — Ray Bradbury

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living - cook books and detective stories. — Rex Stout

Books measure time in both moments and years.
We all grow old but the stories never will. — R.M. Engelhardt

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made. — Ellen J. Barrier

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions — Michael Morpurgo

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. — Audrey Niffenegger

Toilet paper unrolled and slithered
then wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll me up
into an Egyptian mummy. — Melinda K. Trotter

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply there is a book. — Scarlett Thomas

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries. — Neil Gaiman

Let me in, Emily, and I swear to you that you'll never regret it.
Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions — Elize Amornette

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die. — Anatoly Rybakov

My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works. — Gabrielle Zevin

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays. — Susan Straight

I meet people and they become chapters in my stories. — Avijeet Das