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A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was to create a book that affords readers some of the novel's long-form pleasures but that also contains the short story's ability to capture what is so difficult about being human - the brevity of our moments, their cruel irrevocability.

A friend of mine, a poet, Rebecca Wolff recently said to me, "You know, your stories are really voice-driven," and I guess I knew that already, but it's so true that I can't get something going unless I can hear the voice.

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for.

After Chen Zhen, I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.

After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar Hijuelos and others, have been most encouraging.

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on TV.

A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.

A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

A good story never dies.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.

A great brand is a story that's never completely told.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.

A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.