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I wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about. — Shannon Hale

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. — Finley Peter Dunne

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read. — A.D. Posey

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. — Glen Duncan

Thank you for coming. Enjoy the things that never happened. Secure your own mask again after you read these stories, but do not forget to help others. — Neil Gaiman

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again! — Caroline B. Cooney

people who read short stories love endings that make them want to gargle with Drano or nosedive off a skyscraper. But — Benjamin Percy

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that. — Alexis Dziena

If you're looking for diaper stories or BDSM, look elsewhere. My stories are of love and of course hot man to man sex. Please give them a read. — Dick Parker

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.' — Ian McEwan

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

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story. — Uma Thurman

If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead! — Ana Claudia Antunes

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

I think women love to read love stories. — E.L. James

Life will be empty without great stories to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired. — Cynthia Voigt

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark. — Julie Mehretu

Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads — Ronald T. Potter-Efron

You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me ... — Bobby V

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child. — Shirley Williams

The stories I read gives strength to my spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections — L.P. Hartley

You can't read good-night stories to your bank account, or brush its hair, or teach it how to ride a bike for the first time. — Marko Kloos

Read a lot. Read broadly ... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored ... Write a lot. — John Green

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words. — Michael Morpurgo

I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to. — Jane Green

i think anyone who loves good and true stories you have to read g-spot and you will not want to put it down and you might want to read it again. — Noire

When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant. — Thom Yorke

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life. — Indu Muralidharan

Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed. — Kate Winslet

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it. — Sandra Cisneros

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers. — Ruth Glick

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech. — Deborah Eisenberg

Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories. — Elizabeth Savage

'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch. — Jason Aaron

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life. — Roland Barthes

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere. — Roland Barthes

Can you imagine a world without books to read? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone. — Simon Van Booy

Who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story. — Katherine Anne Porter

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. — Alan Garner

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world. — Maya Angelou

I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist. — Carol Berg

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed. — Zach Cregger

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it. — Henry Ford

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him. — Emma Donoghue

faces tell stories if you learn to read them! — Tom Mitcheltree

I decided to write the book I wanted to read — David A. Lottes

Sometimes, when I couldn't afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves. — Steve Stern

Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future. — Habeeb Akande

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right. — V.S. Naipaul

I used to read a lot. But my focus has gotten worse. My favorites are Russian authors and dark stories where there's no hope. — Robert Pattinson

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories. — Jonathan Demme

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.' — Jen Kirkman

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to. — Danny Boyle

Men read either the novels it is possible to respect, or detective stories. But their consumption of detective stories is terrific. — George Orwell

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience. — Daniel Clowes

I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.' — Ellen Datlow

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story. — Amy Engel

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it. — Paolo Bacigalupi

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

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. — Erwin Knoll

Like all stories, the one you are about to read is a love story.
If it wasn't, what would be the point? — Leila Sales

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it. — Adam Driver

Television's not going read stories to you. — Kurt Loder

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me. — Edward P. Jones

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time. — Tony DiTerlizzi

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. — Barry Eisler

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too. — Sharon Creech

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book! — Andy Andrews

Don't read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success. — Abdul Kalam

I write stories, because I want to read them. — A.E. Croft

Those who have read my stories already, are the ones who were meant to read them. — Randal Licato

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird. — Chris Roberson

From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first. — A.A. Milne

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours. — Mark Doty

I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off. — Mark Billingham