Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

Seth Grahame-Smith

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Stephen King

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

Sophie Marceau

Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.

Shon Mehta

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Steven Millhauser

These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories

Suman Pokhrel

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

Salman Rushdie

There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.

Saoirse Ronan

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

Stephen Sondheim

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

Sara Sheridan

With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys.

Sophie Winkleman

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.

Taissa Farmiga

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles.

Tom Folsom

We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.

Tim O'Reilly

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

Taylor Swift

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

Theodore Sturgeon

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

Tom Stoppard

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Jennifer Weiner

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

Kamal Ahmed

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

Karen Armstrong

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Kevin Bacon