Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Setterfield

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

Charles de Lint

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

Dan Harmon

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

Anne Tyler

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

Anna Pavlova

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

Kate DiCamillo

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

Margaret Atwood

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

Gertrude Stein

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

Gertrude Stein

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

Charles Dickens

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charlaine Harris

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

Eartha Kitt

The public has become my fairy godmother.

Allison Pearson

Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?

Jim Butcher

The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.