Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

Evangeline Lilly

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

Gloria Swanson

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

Jane Campion

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

Josh Hutcherson

'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.

Jim Sturgess

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

Lasse Hallstrom

If the story of your life isn't yet a powerful statement, then you are yet to push yourself to the limit.

Edmond Mbiaka

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Edgar Allan Poe

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

Eli Roth

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

A. E. van Vogt

It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

Fede Alvarez

The shortest horror story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

Frederic Brown

Our story may have any number of endings but its start is a singular choice we make today.

Faisal Khosa

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Frank Miller

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

Flannery O'Connor

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Garret Dillahunt

Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.

Charles Duhigg

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Despite our challenges, hope lies in the reality that our story does not end here.

Charles F. Glassman

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

Christo

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

Craig Johnston