Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

Helen Dunmore

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story

Hilary Duff

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

Helen Garner

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

Hunter Hayes

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

Hannah Kent

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

Hannah Kent

Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.

Hideo Kojima

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

John C. McGinley

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game.

John C. McGinley

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

Joyce Maynard

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

J.K. Rowling

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

John Sayles

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

John Scott

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

Juliet Stevenson

To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail." -Rayner Unwin

Jeff Shanley

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

Curt Weldon

When there is nothing to say about a book; we end up saying "Beautiful Story".

Crestless Wave

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

Dan Chaon

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

Daniel Day-Lewis

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

Diane von Furstenberg

Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.

David Gaider