Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

David Hare

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

Christina Ricci

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Timothy Radcliffe

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

Frederik Pohl

I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.

Waris Ahluwalia

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

Ciaran Hinds

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

Lorrie Moore

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

Maya Angelou

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

Bella Thorne

If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.

Charlie Trotter

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Donald Miller

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Gloria Swanson

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

Helen Mirren

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.

James Nesbitt

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

Kim Edwards

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Karen Kingsbury

I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

Liam James

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Max Frisch

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

Morris Gleitzman

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Mindy Kaling

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Will Chase