“Something we don't talk about when it comes to worldbuilding is the power of NOT explaining something. Sometimes, just throwing out a word and letting the audience wonder what that could be is a good thing.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“It's true you can't teach humor. But it's pretty easy to set up a joke the same way you set up a conflict: put a character in a situation they're not equipped to handle.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“I've said this before, but while I'm not huge on 80's references, the general mood of 80's films really stuck with me. The emphasis on friendship being more important than anything and of never backing down in the face of something much bigger than you resonated with me.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“To me the best books are the ones that make me SO ANGRY because like what gives you the right to write this well, you know? Beautiful sentences make me want to throw books and that's how I know the writer is killing it. Like, this may be just me because I write, but when I read so called "good" writ…”— rachel syme, twitter.com
“there are a lot of bad stories out there doing real harm in the world it’s up to us to tell better ones”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.com
“But in any movie where there’s a white witch and a dark witch, that’s just another way to pin women against each other.”— Yema Rose, vulture.com
“When you speak I like to listen to you because when you speak it feels like hearing a story about the first time somebody saw the ocean, no matter what you’re saying.”— Dalton Day, harpoonreview.com
“If you have read this whole thing, I hope you have plenty of time. You could have been reading the stories.”— John D. Macdonald, amazon.com
“Dreaming that you're beside me I picture the prettiest stories Only to wake up All by myself.”— Ella Fitzgerald, open.spotify.com
“By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain, everybody. Everybody has their story to tell…”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”— Flannery O’Connor, amazon.com
“I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted,…”— Terry Goodkind, goodreads.com
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.”— Sandra Dallas, amazon.com
“Mother didn’t understand that children aren’t frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.”— Kate Morton, amazon.com