Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trudi Canavan

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

John Wesley

My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.

Henry M. Morris

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

Richard Wright

All literature is protest.

Russell Baker

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Rex Stout

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

William Maxwell

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

Whitley Strieber

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Tucker Max

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Trevor Nunn

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Samuel Johnson

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

Wallace Stevens

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Joe Meno

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richard Wright

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Richard Bausch

A good story needs only a good storyteller.