Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

Michelle Monaghan

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

Robin McKinley

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

Rasheed Ogunlaru

I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

Sergio Aragones

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.

Sloane Crosley

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

Michael Ondaatje

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

Mark Pellegrino

Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story.

Marty Rubin

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Maria Semple

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

Marilyn vos Savant

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Mark Sheppard

Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.

Niall Ferguson

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

Nicole Kidman

The next best thing to christmas is...... a story worth reading.

Nadun Lokuliyanage

When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows.

Karma

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Robert Redford

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

Nigel Kneale

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

Ordinary Heroes

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

Wolf Blitzer