Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio

I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

Candice Accola

I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people mak...

Carlton Cuse

The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.

Matt Groening

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.

First Love

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

Family Man - A Short Story of Murder

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.

Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder

Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophecy that literature would increasingly replace religion.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'

Rick Bragg

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

Reba McEntire

Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story, so I thought sound could help with the storytelling.

Stephen Hopkins

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

Susan Howatch

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

Steven Levitt

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

Sam Mendes

If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way.

Shane McAnally

Remember: It’s all in your head… all of it. If you don’t like the story, change it. If the people around don’t accept your new story; change them.

Steve Maraboli

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Samantha Power

I believe that everyone has a story to tell. The problem that is inherent to most aspiring authors is that they struggle with getting the story from their head to the page.

Steve C. Roberts