“In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.” BookStoriesHappensNextNovelMinesOrdinaryConsequenceDetectives Author:Steig Larsson
“I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.” WantKindIdeasRealSometimesMomentsStoriesBodySongHeardMinesPerceptionBuiltStructurePassingPassingsFragileInterfereImprovisation Author:Ryan Adams
“Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.” LittlesLongStoriesSunMinesFlowerGloryViolet Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour.” NeedsStoriesMinesDesignerGlamour Author:Naeem Khan
“It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen & Dunsany & others, rather than through the Bierce-Chambers line, that I picked up my gradually developing hash of theogony - or daimonogony. Come to think of it, I guess I sling this stuff more as Chambers does than as Machen & Dunsany do - though I had written a good deal of it before I ever suspected that Chambers ever wrote a weird story!” ThinkingDoeIdeasStoriesStuffLinesDealsWrittenMinesMythologyDevelopingChamberBad IdeasHash Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it. We endure and go on to do interesting things and have worthy lives, even though we carry our heartbreaks with us. That's a kind of personal story of mine that I don't think I would tell in memoir but I do think I can tell in fiction.” ThinkingHeartKindI CanStoriesInterestingFictionMinesBrokenGoes OnEndureWorthyLove StoryMemoirDestroyedInteresting ThingsPersonal Stories Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.” MenMindStoriesYoungLiteratureJourneyMinesHeroComparisonUnusualOlder Man Author:David Guterson