Chris Priestley Quotes

• Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

  Chris Priestley

  Mean, Imagination, Doe

  Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

  Chris Priestley

  Real, Stories, May

  Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

  Chris Priestley

  Strange, Newspapers

  Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

  Chris Priestley

  Men, House, Tree

  Chris Priestley (2009). “Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror”, p.9, A&C Black

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