Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Sometimes I realize halfway through a story, I'm like, 'Why would anyone care about this? It's uninteresting.'

Kyle Kinane

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

Kelly McCreary

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

Karen Russell

I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.

Kara Swisher

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Karin Slaughter

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

Leslie Banks

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

Linwood Barclay

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

Louise Brown

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Lydia Davis

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

Linda McMahon

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

Lorrie Moore

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

Michael Arrington

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

Maeve Binchy

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

Malik Bendjelloul

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

Martin Bashir

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

Mel Brooks

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Michael Bergdahl

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

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