#tories

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#ducks #i #into #stories #swans

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#author #focusing #i #i always #ignorant

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place. ↗

— Donald Davis

#anywhere #could #created #die #discovered

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#allowed #back #childhood #fact #frogs

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#hundreds #i #news #started #stories

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#credible #deny #either #hebrews #hero

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#certainly #detective #detective stories #featured #forensic

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#day-to-day #day-to-day life #describing #draw #experiences

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#course #crime #describe #i #i write

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#back #believe #curious #curious person #i