"Most of my books came from when I was telling stories."

-- Robert Munsch

#Book Quotes #Stories Quotes #Telling Stories Quotes

“Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.”
“I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.”
“No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.”
“To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.”
“I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.”
“Thereâ€™s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his faceâ€¦ I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone elseâ€™s. Thatâ€™s a difficult statement to live up to, but then Iâ€™ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.”
“Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.”
“But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well... Send her back to where she came. Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.”

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