Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

Malala Yousafzai

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

Neil Gaiman

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

Nicole Holofcener

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Neil Jordan

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

Neil Jordan

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

Nicholas Jarecki

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Nigel Kneale

If there are two straight sides to every story, they’ll always be one lopsided truth.

The King of Rhyme

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.

Steven Levitan

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

Antony Beevor

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Cassandra Wilson

In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

Jim Rash

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Elizabeth Moon

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Erin McKean

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.

Samuel R. Delany

While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school.

Scott Weiss

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

Laurie Graham

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

Suzanne Collins

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Wynonna Judd

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

Ashley Johnson