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I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo? -- Billy Campbell
I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo? -- Billy Campbell
As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories. -- Haruki Murakami
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. -- Frederik Pohl
I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story. -- Lana Del Rey
I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories. -- Malorie Blackman
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more. -- James Patterson
I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. -- Neil Jackson
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. -- Dale Archer
I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading. -- Lisa Tuttle
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. -- Tom T. Hall
If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important. -- Gail Carson Levine
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. -- Garret Dillahunt
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. -- Arthur Christiansen
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places. -- Louise Brown
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job. -- Harvey Milk
Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand. -- Melissa Bank
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? -- Ray Bradbury
I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them. -- Morris Gleitzman
I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own. -- Linda Sue Park
By reading great stories, you will renew your mind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
You can renew your mind and revive spirit by reading great stories. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual. -- Sol Stein
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves -- John Green
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire. -- Ann Voskamp
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. -- Agatha Christie
I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list. -- Joshuah Bearman
I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times. -- Vikas Swarup
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range. -- Garth Nix
I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.' -- Vikas Swarup
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My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. -- Irena A. Hoffman
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says. -- Cheryl Strayed
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. -- John Steinbeck
I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable. -- George Packer
I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story. -- Emily Giffin
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading. -- Rebecca Solnit
I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person. -- Barbara Mertz
Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories. -- Frank Lampard
When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders. -- Jesmyn Ward
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang. -- Ambrose Bierce
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction. -- Jeff Vandermeer
I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients. -- Susan Hill
Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion. -- Karen Armstrong

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